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<br />Potential Reclamation Projects
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<br />Feasibility investigations completed
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<br />Animas-La Plata
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<br />The Animas-La Plata project would develop flows of the Animas and
<br />La Plata Rivers to provide an average of 234,500 acre-feet of water annu-
<br />ally, 172,500 acre-feet of which would be usable in Colorado (163,000
<br />acre-feet for irrigation and 9,200 acre-feet for municipal and industrial
<br />purpose). The remaining 62,000 acre-feet of project water would be used
<br />for irrigation in New' Mexico. The irrigation water used in Colorado would
<br />serve 20,100 acres of supplemental service land and 44,200 acres of full
<br />service land. The project would also provide benefits to recreation and
<br />fish and wildlife conservation. The project would cost $102,282,000, of
<br />which $3,065,000 would be nonreimbursable. Of the remaining $99,217,000,
<br />$3,000,000 would be assessed to the Indians, $15,407,000 would be repaid
<br />by state and local interests, and $80,810,000 from revenues apportioned
<br />to Colorado ($57,912,000) and New Mexico ($22,898,000) from the Upper Colo-
<br />rado River Basin Fund. The project stream depletion assessed to Colorado
<br />would be 92,000 acre-feet annually.
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<br />Dolores
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<br />The Dolores project would develop 126,900 acre-feet of project water
<br />from the Dolores River including 6,100 for municipal and industrial use
<br />and 120,800 acre-feet for the irrigation of 28,660 acres of supplemental
<br />land and 32,340 acres of full service land. Fish and wildlife and recrea-
<br />tion benefits would also be provided by the project. The project would
<br />cost $46,643,000 of which $4,799,000 would be nonreimbursable, $300,000
<br />allocated to the Indians, $10,878,000 repaid by state and local interests,
<br />and the remaining $30,353,000 would be repaid from the Upper Colorado River
<br />Basin Fund. The project would deplete the flaws of the Colorado River by
<br />87,000 acre-feet annually.
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<br />Proposed drafts of feasibility reports prepared
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<br />Dallas Creek
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<br />The Dallas Creek project would regulate flows of the Uncompahgre
<br />River to provide an average of 75,300 acre-feet of water annually. Proj-
<br />ect water would include 60,300 acre-feet for the irrigation of 8,720 acres
<br />of supplemental service land and 14,900 acres of full service land and
<br />15,000 acre-feet for municipal and industrial use. The project would also
<br />provide benefits to recreation, fish and wildlife, and flood control. The
<br />project would cost $36,968,000 of which $3,620,800 would be nonreimburs-
<br />able. The reimbursable balance would include $22,299,900 to be paid from
<br />revenues apportioned to Colorado from the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund
<br />and $11,047,300 to be paid by local and state interests. The project
<br />would deplete the flows of the Colorado River by about 37,000 acre-feet
<br />annually.
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