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Images from the Bessemer Project

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.

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Images from the Bessemer Project

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  1. 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

  2. Locator Map Bessemer is Adjacent to and East of Pueblo Colorado

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

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

  5. Fields desirable to convert to wildlife support on Saint Charles River

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

  7. 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

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

  9. 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!

  10. 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

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