Late Season Leasing Pilot Program (LSLPP)

With grant funding provided to the District through our partners, the Conservation Program is unveiling multiple pilot projects for 2020.  One of these projects is a  Late Season Leasing Pilot Program (LSLPP).  The LSLPP is designed to financially compensate irrigators to voluntarily suspend their irrigation water delivery towards the end of the growing season.  The purpose of the LSLPP is to reduce water use for forage crops during a time when yield is typically low.  This is expected to increase the flexibility of the District’s water resources during the time of year when Rio Grande Compact deliveries and endangered species obligations are more difficult to meet.  The LSLPP is intended to test interest and market demand for such a program and will be limited in scale and location to only Valencia County for the 2020 irrigation season.