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<br />of the economic ills which currently exist. Trinidad State Junior <br /> <br /> <br />College, tourism and recreation, the Trinidad Lake Project, numerous <br /> <br /> <br />government programs aimed at stimulating and upgrading the area, the <br /> <br />current development of an industrial park, together with existing <br /> <br />growth resources, and abundant reserves of coal with good coking and <br /> <br />low sulfer qualities, hold the potential for.a very favorable economic <br /> <br />future. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />7. Irri~ated A~ricu1ture. Irrigated agriculture is practiced <br />on land primarily downstream (northeast) of Trinidad. This area is <br />within a semiarid region and must rely upon irrigation for the produc- <br /> <br />tion of nearly all agricultural crops. Irrigated acreage, much of <br /> <br />which is located outside the flood plain on the rolling plains area, <br />comprises two large areas between Trinidad and the mouth of San <br /> <br />Francisco Creek (above the canyon area). These areas are the Sunflower <br /> <br />Valley, which occupies both sides of the river for a distance of about <br />15 miles below Trinidad, and the Model area, located northeast of the <br />river. Eleven privately'owned ditch systems serve the area primarily <br />by direct flow rights from the Purgatoire River. Low diversion dams, <br />constructed of concrete or earth, rock, and brush, impound and direct <br />flows into the irrigation canals. One -()"{""Hie ditch .8ystem~., _ the <br />previously mentioned Model land and Irrigation Company, has a 20,000 <br />acre-feet storage right and a storage reservoir (Model Reservoir) <br /> <br /> <br />located about 12 miles northeast of Trinidad. The area irrigated is <br /> <br /> <br />about 10 miles east of the reservoir. However, the storage right <br /> <br /> <br />cannot be fully exercised because the original 20,000 acre-feet capacity <br /> <br />11-28 <br /> <br />. <br />