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2. Site Assessment -The Water Resources Availability Rating <br />The Water Resources Availability Rating is based upon identifying the various water <br />sources that may supply a given property, and then determining whether different <br />restrictions in supply are likely to take place in years that are characterized as being <br />periods of drought and non - drought. Site Assessment Worksheet 2. -Water <br />Resources Availability Worksheet (Table 4) is used to tabulate the score. <br />Step 1. <br />Identify the different water resource types that are used to supply the proposed <br />project site (for example, irrigation district water, ground water, and riparian water <br />are considered to be three different types of water resources). Where there is only <br />one water source identified for the proposed project, skip to Step 4. <br />Step 2. <br />Divide the proposed project site into portions, with the boundaries of each portion <br />being defined by the irrigation water source(s) supplying it. A site that is fully served <br />by a single source of water will have a single portion, encompassing the entire site. <br />A site that is fully served by two or more sources that are consistently merged <br />together to serve a crop's needs would also have a single portion. (e.g., a portion of <br />the proposed project may receive both irrigation district and groundwater). If the <br />project site includes land that has no irrigation supply, consider this acreage as a <br />separate portion as well. Enter the water resource portions of the project in <br />Column B of Table 4, Site Assessment Worksheet 2. - Water Resources <br />Availability. <br />[As an example, a hypothetical project site is determined to have four separate <br />water supply portions: <br />Portion 1 is served by irrigation district water only; <br />Portion 2 is served by ground water only; <br />Portion 3 is served by both irrigation district water and ground water; <br />Portion 4 is not irrigated at all.] <br />Step 3. <br />Calculate the proportion of the total project area that is represented by each water <br />resource portion, and enter these figures in Column C of Site Assessment <br />Worksheet 2. - Water Resources Availability, verifying that the sum of the <br />proportions equals 1.0. <br />16 <br />75A -407 <br />