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<br />00'31b1 <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />CHAPTER In <br /> <br />WATER SUPPLY <br /> <br />TABLE VIII <br />NET ACREAGES ABOVE NAVAJO DAM SITE <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br /> Presently irrigated ; <br /> lands i <br /> With es- I <br /> sentially Requiring <br /> a full supplemen- New i <br />Pro iect or area sunnlv tal water lands Total <br />Dulce project 1,840 14,9501 16,790 <br />OINeal Park project 2,140 5,400. 7,540 <br />Pine River project extension 33,160 35,840 I 69,000 <br />Misc. areas above Rosa, N.Mex. , <br />San Juan River above Pagosa I <br />Springs 1,680 0 I 3:<0 2,000 <br />Coal Creek 0 290 0 29(- <br />Four Mile Creek 0 3,240 20 3,260 <br />Mill Creek 210 380 130 7:<0 <br />Echo Canyon 0 660 5g1 660 <br />Rio and Rito Blanco , 780 290 1,120 <br />San Juan River-Gate to Pagosa <br />Springs 260 0 210 470 <br />San Juan River-Carracas project 250 0 1,420 1,670 <br />Stoll steimer and Lower Piedra 960 840 1,060 2,860 <br /> , <br />Total 41 280 5 700 . 59.400 106.380 <br /> <br />Water Rights <br /> <br />Two compacts among interested States anti a treaty between tme <br />United States and Mexico govern the division of Colorado River waters. <br />The Colorado River Compact of 1922 allocates waters to the upper and <br />lower basins. Waters allocated the upper basin are divided among the <br />States in the upper basin by the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact of <br />1949. The Mexican Water Treaty of 1945 defines Mexico'S rights to the <br />use of water from the Colorado River system. <br /> <br />The Upper Colorado River Basin Compact'establishes tme obligation <br />of each State of the upper division with respect to the deliveries of <br />water required to be made at Lee Ferry by the Colorado River Compact. <br />Article 3 of the upper basin compact allocates to the State of Arizona <br />the consumptive use of 50,000 acre-feet per annum and apportions the <br />remainder of the upper basin's water among Colorado (51.75 percent), <br />New Mexico (11.25 percent), Utah (23 percent), and Wyoming (14 percent). <br />The compact . pportions the consumptive use of waters of the San Juan River <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />24 <br /> <br />, ~ ~ " ~ <br /> <br />