Acequias

meeting lunch on 16th!!!

Notes from meeting on 15th

Statement of Goals

Want to address questions of environmental impact of traditional farming, stability. where is it ok to develop? Where should we work on preservation? Where are these fundamentally tied to economy and social situation? What kind of development is ok for the system? "if you develop this in way X rather than way Y, what will the difference be?"

Suggest that we promote maintenance of acequias, prevent division of land, present pressures on the acequia system by suburbanization Want more data to do this well.

Data

We have: have point data (KML file), demographic data (census tracts), USGS map data for the area

We want: shapefiles, more census data, Census: American Community Surveys?

People present

JP, Kim, Ingrid, Anne, Zoe, Rajani, Andreas, Sarah