Images from the Bessemer Project Illustrations for Extended Report To accompany report to NOAA David Yates, P.I., and John Wiener, Decision Support for Climate- Responsive Urban and Agricultural Water Supply and Demand

Locator Map Bessemer is Adjacent to and East of Pueblo Colorado

Aerial View of Bessemer and environs in a wet time before planting Saint Charles River Six Mile Creek Note vegetation much greater than in recent years Huerfano River Arkansas River City of Pueblo Fountain Creek

Convert to wetlands, extending what is there? Would take water for that purpose, but seasonality might be different from most crops

Fields desirable to convert to wildlife support on Saint Charles River

With the ethanol boom and the spike in corn prices, there is now more Note: areas north of the Arkansas River are not irrigated by the Bessemer

This is the year after the 2002 Drought We used this data set for analysis because it is public information not used for taxation See photo of “headwaters” of 6 Mile Creek Note: areas north of the Arkansas River are not irrigated by the Bessemer

A lot of parcels were fallow – partly result of the drought Note: areas north of the Arkansas River are not irrigated by the Bessemer

The red fields here are the fallow and also the not-irrigated in 2003 – that’s a large amount of land! Note: areas north of the Arkansas River are not irrigated by the Bessemer

Here’s one view of the irrigation in use in 2003… from CDSS Note: areas north of the Arkansas River are not irrigated by the Bessemer