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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
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Locator Map Bessemer is Adjacent to and East of Pueblo Colorado
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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
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Convert to wetlands, extending what is there? Would take water for that purpose, but seasonality might be different from most crops
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Fields desirable to convert to wildlife support on Saint Charles River
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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
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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
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A lot of parcels were fallow – partly result of the drought Note: areas north of the Arkansas River are not irrigated by the Bessemer
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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
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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
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