WSP08670

• File Number: 8270.100
• Description: Colorado River Basin Water Quality/Salinity -- Misc Water Quality
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/7/1974
• Title: Status Report - Grand Valley Unit - Colorado River Water Quality Improvement Program
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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majo1' con~truction cO;:;;llcted in InG. This proj ect Cfnsists of tl'IO

di visions, the Garfie 1.1 Gravity and the Orchard 1.le5a Divisions, en

the north and south sides of the river, respectively.

A total of aboui: 76,000. acres are served w;1ter by these irri[:J.tion
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enti ties \1i th npproxilOately 42.000 acres under Federal proj ects.

Hajor crops produced in the vn11e)' are corn, sugnr beets, smnll

grnins, alfalfn, nr.d various orchard crops. The photo on the fol-

lowing pnge is an aerial view of the Grand Valley looking to the

\'1cst.

The 1972 Summary Repor::, Federal Reclamn.tion Projects, lI'a::er nnd

Lnnd Resource AccomplL:hments, shows thai: in 1972 the value of the

crops produced on Grand Vn11ey Project lands (Federnl Project) was

moro thnn $7 million. This $7 ;nillion crop vnlue t:enerated $47 mil-

lion in increased busi,ness for locnl and stnte commerce in 1969.

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(!lased on a study made by i:he UniversHy of Nebrnska sho\1s that

each dollnr of increnscd irrit:ated crop production generates $6.68

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in ncw business activity for locn.l and state interests.) The value

of Cl:-OPS produced on Pr'ivate proj ects in the Grand Valley has not

been determined but would be nearly equivalent.
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