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<br />o <br />.i. <br />..-f <br />"'"" <br /> <br />c;~ <br /> <br />will be converted to residential and urban uses during the next ten <br />years; extensive oil shale development could raise the estimate to <br />9,700 acres. Under projected conditions there would be about 57,000 <br />acres remainIng in irrigated agriculture. Present zoning authority <br />could control the pattern of new developments, preserve the irrigated <br />lands, and poss i b I y reduce the acreage converted to l.rban uses. <br /> <br />Some of the newly developed sub-divisi.:ms have retained agricultural <br />water rights associated with the land and allocated those rights to <br />building lots so the new homeowner can pump from irrigation ditches <br />to water lawns and shrubs. Therefore, salt loading conditions at the <br />river may not be alleviated because of land use conversions, unless <br />water management plans also are developed and implemented for resi- <br />dential homeowners. <br /> <br />34 <br />