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<br />....., '. <br /> <br />Louden* <br /> <br />. . <br /> - 2 - <br /> Floodwater <br /> Retarding <br />County Acres Dams <br /> - <br />Pue b 1 0 11,110 4 <br />Larimer and Held 43,140 1** <br />La Plata & Archuleta 57,730 2 <br />Larimer 113,280 0 <br /> <br />001693 <br /> <br />Project_ <br />Vineland <br /> <br />Home Supp1y* <br /> <br />Pine River* <br /> <br />* The projects involve improvements to irrigation systems that serve <br />the irrigated areas. <br />** Irrigation storage only. <br /> <br />The completion of these projects involve the construction of 76 <br />floodwater retarding dams and carrying out needed land treatment measures <br />on watershed lands. The Ramah dam on the Big Sandy Creck project is a <br />multipurpose structure. It has 5,000 acre feet of capacity for flood <br /> <br />prevention and 500 acre feet for fish and wildlife. The Federal cost in <br /> <br />constructing flood prevention works of improvement on these projects is <br /> <br />approximately $5,000,000 and the sponsoring organizations together with <br /> <br />farmers and ranchers have contributed ill excess of an eouivalent amount <br /> <br />tO~IaI'd cos ts incurred in carryi ng out the projects. <br /> <br />5. lvork plan development is about 70 percent comp 1 e te on the West Paradox <br />watershed consisting of 38,000 acres in Montrose County, Colorado and <br />22,000 acres in San Juan County, Utah. This project involves land <br />treatment on watershed land and 'increasing the capacity of the Buckeye <br />Reservoir in the amount of 2,000 acre feet for irrigation and 400 acre <br /> <br />feet for fish and wildlife. <br /> <br />6. Pre1 iminary investigations are in progress on the following: <br /> Fl oodwa ter <br /> Project County Acres Retarding Dams <br /> - <br /> Crooked Arroyo Otero 69,000 5 <br /> Box Elder Creek Larimer 190,000 6 <br /> Eaton Weld 22,000 1 <br /> Plum Creek Douglas 222,000 9 <br /> Canon Hatersheds Fremont 16,000 2-3 <br />