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2015 Irrigated acres feature class for the Upper Rio Grande Basin, New Mexico and Texas, United States and Chihuahua, Mexico

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Pedraza, D.E., Stengel, V.G., Pasley, N., and Pease, E.C., 2019, 2015 Irrigated acres feature class for the Upper Rio Grande Basin, New Mexico and Texas, United States and Chihuahua, Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P99OIFYY.

Summary

Consumptive use (CU) of water is an important factor for determining water availability and groundwater storage. Many regional stakeholders and water-supply managers in the Upper Rio Grande Basin have indicated CU is of primary concern in their water-management strategies, yet CU data is sparse for this area. This polygon feature class, which represents irrigated acres for 2015, is a geospatial component of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Census Upper Rio Grande Basin (URGB) focus area study's effort to improve quantification of CU in parts of New Mexico, west Texas, and northern Chihuahua. These digital data accompany Ivahnenko, T.I., Flickinger, A.K., Galanter, A.E., Douglas-Mankin, K.R., Pedraza, D.E., and Senay, G.B., [...]

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FloodIrrigPecan.jpg
“Flood irrigation near Hatch, N. Mex. A.E. Galanter, USGS, February 2019”
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IA_GIS.zip
“Irrigated Acres Geospatial Dataset”
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IA_Metadata.xml
“Irrigated Acres Metadata”
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Purpose

The 2015 irrigated acres feature class was created to aid in the estimation of consumptive use related to irrigation. To compute consumptive use more accurately, a geospatial dataset containing delineated field polygons with attributes of land type, crop type, and irrigation type was needed.
Flood irrigation near Hatch, N. Mex. A.E. Galanter, USGS, February 2019
Flood irrigation near Hatch, N. Mex. A.E. Galanter, USGS, February 2019

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