Some questions about the data:

1. I notice that you have a potential atajado site- can you give me sort of a general verbal de_script_ion of the site and why you chose that site? Actually, if it’s possible, a verbal de_script_ion and/or some photos of the entire site would be really helpful to get a better mental picture of what I’m actually looking at in the GIS data.

2. Do you and Greby have an idea of pond size requirements for the kind of aquaculture that the pond will be used for (just sort of a general minimum is all I need to know)?

3. Are the old atajados no longer in use? I think that's what I remember from reading Peace Corps reports from Tipa Tipa.

4. The only problem that I foresee at this point is that the area you have selected for the potential atajado site is in an area with a Typic Ustorthent soil, which according to the soil de_script_ion doesn’t sound like it would hold water at all, but the old atajados are on the border of that soil type as well, so either there must be some clay there or they lined the pond or something- I know those atajados were constructed awhile ago, but do you know if they lined them?

5. I see three streams on the property, one which is labeled as the canal, one as an ephemeral stream, and the third one is unlabeled (the one that flows out of one of the old atajados)- is that an irrigation ditch? Also, the ephemeral stream that’s right on the border of the property- is the source of that stream way off the property or is there any possibility of diverting it to the atajado?

6. For the “capacity” map, what is meant by “capacity”?

7. Do you have a data table that goes with the water balance figure from your thesis? I can estimate monthly rainfall figures from the graph, but a data table would be more accurate. Do you consider that rainfall and evapotranspiration data pretty accurate for this property (i.e., can I use it to reliably predict how much water we have to work with)?

I think that's all for now. In a couple days I hope to have a general idea of where things should go, and when I do I'll post that here.

One other thing: P.A. Yeomans emphasizes that in farm planning, water use should not be designed around reliability of water supply but instead around complete usage of all water available (even if this means there isn't always enough water for every use it has been planned for). What do you think about this?