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Availability of water is a primary concern because the capacity of the Why well may not support 100 housing units. If the Why system cannot meet the capacity, a new well, storage system, and reverse osmosis system would need to be constructed. Land acquisition would require a land grant from the BLM, which could take 6 months to 2 years. The unimproved nature of the property would require installation of all utility infrastructure, including on-site septic systems. Costs were considered to be high for this site due to lack of utilities and the need to factor in the cost of a new water system. Ajo Alternative 3 was eliminated from further consideration because of the application and approval requirements for a BLM land grant, the unimproved nature of the property requiring new infrastructure, and the potential requirement to drill a new well. 3.2 Alternatives Considered in Detail Through the preceding evaluation, five of the six action alternatives were eliminated from further consideration. The remaining action alternative and the No Action Alternative are described in this section. 3.2.1 Preferred Alternative The Preferred Alternative is Ajo Alternative 1 (Figure 3). This alternative proposes acquiring seven contiguous parcels in Ajo. The first parcel is addressed as 55 S. Sahuaro St. and currently supports a partially occupied mobile home park. The next is a small, unaddressed parcel immediately adjacent to the southwestern corner of the 55 S. Sahuaro St. parcel. The remaining five parcels consist of vacant parcels addressed as 801, 811, 821, 831, and 841 W. Esperanza Ave., immediately north of the 55 S. Sahuaro St. parcel (Figure 4). The 55 S. Sahuaro St. parcel was originally intended to have 40 mobile home units and currently has utilities in-ground and ready for hookup. Though utility service lines exist to the site boundary, it is assumed that the Preferred Alternative would require adjustments to the on-site utility infrastructure. Four lots are currently leased by the GSA at this site, each with a CBP-owned mobile home, and eight lots are occupied by private tenants. The location has convenient access to local roads, is within walking distance to amenities in Ajo, is in a location that would foster a sense of community within the CBP, and requires the lowest amount of development costs of the Ajo alternatives (Figure 4). Three water companies serve the town of Ajo. The largest system is the Ajo Improvement Company owned by the Phelps Dodge Corporation. It pumps water from two active wells in the Child’s Well Field, 7 miles north of Ajo, at a depth of 1,170 to 1,350 feet. The Ajo Improvement Company delivers groundwater to two other water systems: Arizona Water Company–Ajo System and Ajo Domestic Water Improvement District (DWID), neither of which operates its own wells to serve customers. Water is currently provided to the site of the Preferred Alternative by the Ajo DWID. The existing mobile home park has 40 hookups for domestic water, though not all of them are currently being used. With the proposed new housing, these 40 hookups would ultimately be replaced with services for 56 residential units, an increase of 16 units. Agreements between the GSA and the Ajo DWID would be secured during the design phase. In 2006, the Ajo DWID received about 40 acre-feet of water from the Ajo Improvement Company and served about 405 residents. Environmental Assessment 11 Ajo Housing Development Project
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