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Estimated crop irrigation water use withdrawals in San Simon Valley Groundwater Subbasin of the Safford Groundwater Basin, Arizona for 2024

Metadata Updated: September 14, 2025

Observations of irrigated agricultural land within the San Simon Valley Groundwater Subbasin of the Safford Groundwater Basin in Arizona. Crops were verified in situ twice in 2024, first on May 31st and again on Sep 20th; based on digitized field boundaries. Field boundaries were digitized from U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agriculture Imagery Program County Mosaic 2023 imagery for Arizona and supplemented with the Sentinel2 imagery collection accessed via the European Space Agency, Copernicus Browser (https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu/). Satellite images were also used in conjunction with OpenET Farm and Ranch Management Support (FARMS; https://farms.etdata.org/) to identify the length of the growing season and crop condition. Water withdrawals were calculated using the modified Blaney-Criddle model of calculating consumptive use (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 1992 appendix A) using crop coefficients from Doorenbos and Pruitt (1975), the number of acres with active crops, crop condition, and irrigation system efficiency. The withdrawal equation was modified from "Water withdrawals for irrigation, municipal, mining, thermoelectric-power, and drainage uses in Arizona outside of active management areas, 1991-2000" (Tadayon, 2005) to account for variations in water application.

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Metadata Created Date September 14, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 14, 2025

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Harvested from DOI USGS DCAT-US

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