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<:> - '-' C"'. . . remaining 44,000 acre-feet of water would be for municipal and induatrial o use. An average annual supply of 500 acre-feet of water would be fur- nished to maintain a 200-acre wildlife area. Recreation facilities would be provided at each project reaervoir. " In the plan at authorization, Saltado Reaervoir would be constructed on the San Miguel River, and a system of canals and lateral a would convey water for irrigation and for aome municipal and industrial un. !he canals would also convey water for further regulation in the ofhtream Naturita and Radium Reservoirs. Saltado Reservoir would be formed by a dam located on the river approximately 12 miles aoutheast of Horwood aDd would have a capacity of 72,600 acre-feet. The reservoir would extend upstream for 4.5 miles and inundate the sman town of Placerville. A flow of approximately 25 cfs would be provided for the fishery in the river downstream of the dam. Project water for irrigation and acme municipal and industrial uses would be released into the Norwood Canal and conveyed westward for 22 miles to Naturita Reservoir. On Wright's Mesa, some of the canal water would be released into the proposed Mailbox Canal and conveyed to project land to the northwes t, and part would be released into the existing Gurley Canal. Naturita Reservoir, with a capacity of 9,200 acre-feet and formed by a dam on an off-stream tributary of the river, would receive water through the Norwood Canal. Water would be released from the reservoir into the Bas in Canal, which would extend to the southwest for about 24 miles. The canal would deliver irrigation water to land along the canal alignment and would release water to the East Fork of Dry Creek for storage in the potential Radium Reservoir, an off-stream reservoir with a 9