An overview of the procedures for the Colorado Rio Grande Type IV study ESCS-SCS linear programming model
Contributors: Glasgow, T.N.
Published: 1980
Language: eng
Number of pages: 17
Subjects: Water resources; Irrigation; Models; Land use; Watersheds; Linear programming
Description: Extract: ESCS and SCS jointly developed a crop, pasture and range linear programming model for the Rio Grande Type IV River Basin Study. A base year model representing years 1970-72 plus twelve projected models were run. Nine early action watershed projects were included in the 2000 National Economic Development (NED) run and 34 long-range watershed projects were included in the 2020 NED run. These were in addition to the without project runs for comparison and the Environmental Quality (EQ) runs which encompassed only two watershed projects. The remaining runs were made to evaluate the economic cost of transferring center pivot irrigated field corners to wildlife habitat.