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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I n01534 Florida Watersheds, dated May, 1986, identifies six parcels as having preliminary repayment capacities high enough to justify water delivery charges, All of these parcels are currently unirrigated, but show the potential for having the benefits of irrigation exceed the costs of converting them to irrigated agricultural use. Five of these parcels are in the Animas Watershed, and constitute a total of approximately 374 acres. In addition, Boyle Engineering identified an additional 313 acres of currently irrigated lands in the Animas Watershed, bringing the total potential PIA in that watershed to approximately 687 acres. (Table 0.8, Animas and Florida Watersheds Task 0 and E Report, Draft No, 2, Boyle Engineering Corporation, May, 1986.) Only one 29 acre unirrigated parcel was classified as potential PIA in the Florida Watershed. However, Boyle Engineering also identified approximately 700 acres of currently irrigated lands in the Florida Watershed, bringing total potential PIA to 729 acres in that watershed. Thus, there is enough irrigated or potentially irrigable land in each watershed to achieve economies of scale similar to the 1016 acre operation assumed in the Level A analysis. The potentially irrigable parcels in both watersheds are listed in Table 5-1, along with a description of the characteristics of each parcel. The first four columns of Table 5-1 give the parcel number, net irrigable acres, land class and climatic zone descriptions for each parcel, The fifth column of Table 5-1, entitled "Cropping Pattern Suitability", provides an indication of whether the cropping pattern that maximizes repayment capacity is suitable for the land class of th~ individual parcel under consideration. Column six of 6 ;~