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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />0153 <br /> <br />maintain essential government services. Discuss apparent quality <br />of life issues. Describe appropriate mitigation (revegetation, in-lieu <br />of tax, etc.). <br /> <br />c) ,Alternatives to the traditional change scenario developed as the baseline might <br />included the following: <br /> <br />1. Traditional type change (dry up of irrigated acreage) but the water is <br />transferred to a new use in the valley. The new use might be <br />agricultural, recreation, or industrial, but lands under the Ft. Lyon <br />Canal would be dried up. Discuss whether such an in.basin market <br />reasonably exists and how the impacts of such a transfer are different <br />from an out.of-basin transfer <br /> <br />2. Water Supply Management <br /> <br />Increase usable water supply through better efficiency; off farm/on <br />farm structural improvements and management lead to more <br />consumable water for use by Ft. Lyon shareholders on existing <br />irrigated lands. Would such a program provide an incentive not to <br />sell agricultural water? <br /> <br />3.. Water Salvage <br /> <br />Can water salvage measures under current law be implemented to <br />make a portion of water currently consumed available for sale or <br />lease. <br /> <br />4. Water banking (Pueblo Res/JMR/other) <br /> <br />Store for subsequent use, sale, lease, water that is not needed for <br />agricultural use. <br /> <br />5. Agricultural land retirement (marginal agricultural lands) <br /> <br />Can the least productive lands be taken out of use and the saved <br />water used on other lands to increase productivity, or be <br />sold/leased to non-agricultural uses; this may include voluntary <br />exchanges between land owners of marginal for productive lands <br /> <br />6. Land fallowing <br /> <br />Can some percent of land be taken out of production annually and <br />the saved water sold or leased or used on other lands to increase <br /> <br />12 <br />