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 MapBessemer isAdjacent to andEast of PuebloColorado

Aerial View ofBessemer andenvirons in a wet time before planting

Saint CharlesRiver

Six Mile CreekNote vegetationmuch 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 seasonalitymight 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 DroughtWe 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 usein 2003… from CDSS

Note: areas north of the Arkansas River are not irrigated by the Bessemer