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Presenter offers Pueblo West parcel-level vegetation map to inform water rates and conservation
Summary
A Colorado Rural Water presenter offered a parcel-level green-space dataset for Pueblo West that identifies trees and irrigable acreage, proposing it as an additional layer for rate-setting and targeted outreach; board members raised privacy and implementation questions and asked staff to review integration and ethics safeguards.
Josiah, representing Colorado Rural Water, presented a parcel-level geospatial vegetation map for Pueblo West on Nov. 7, showing buildings, canopy and groundcover derived from 2023 National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) aerial imagery and a tree-detection layer. "It's a geospatial digital map within the bounds of Pueblo West," he said, and described analytics the district could derive from the dataset, including parcel-scale canopy statistics, irrigation-efficiency scoring and targeted outreach to high-consuming…
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