(GP/GT) for Additional Water Supply in the Lower Rio Grande

TABLE 8·25. ASSl.;;-'1PT!O:\'S FOR THE LAS CRL"CES AREA
Greenhouse Assumptions
Land cost (Slaere)
Rose plan ts per acre
Total # of rose plants
Rose plant costs (5/piant)
A verage bloom selling price
Bloom production (blooms/plant/year)
Production losses
Net blooms (plant/year)
Blooms sold per year
Employees per aere
Greenhouse size (aces)
Acres (totall
Square feet/ acre
Warehouse/Office (sq. ft.)
Economic Assumptions
State tax rate
Federal tax rate
F.r.C.A. rate
S.U.T.A. rate
Workers' Compensation/5l00
Vehicle fee (S/mile)
Vehicle miles driven per year
General inflation rate
Laborer wage rate
Work week (hours)
Property tax rate (5/1,000, l/3 valuation)
tl'tility Assumptions
Electricity energy rate (5/kWh)
Electridty demand rate (5/kW /Mo)
Natural gas rate (5/~1MBTU)
Water rate (5/1,000 gal)
Heating fuel inflation rate
Electricity inllation rate
Heating load (MMBTU/4 acres)
Electricity load (kWh/year/acre)
Electricity load (kW /aere)
Water consumption (gal/acre/year)
Boiler efficiency
C02 (5/ sq. ft. to generate)
:51:,300
31,500
126,000
53.00
SO.32
30
5%
29
3,591,000
i
~
10
43,500
7,000
4.8%
34%
14%
2.7%
54.50
:50.30
20,000
0%
54.50
48
520.95
50.075
514.00
53.25
51.00
0%
0%
16,217
120,000
15
~,888,500
i5%
50.20
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