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<br />.'J <br /> <br />PARSHALL PROJECT, COLORADO <br /> <br />Project costs <br /> <br />Estimated construction costs and operation and maintenance costs <br />for each plan are shown below. <br /> <br /> Plan I Plan II <br />Construction costs <br />Ute Park Dam and Reservoir . . . . $7,900,000 $5,150,000 <br />Skylark Canal . . . . . . . . . 2,769,000 1,870,000 <br />Parshall Flats Canal . . . . . . . . . . 820,000 820,000 <br />Farm laterals . . . . . . . . . . . 446,000 211 ,000 <br />Drains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274,000 142,000 <br /> Total 12,209,000 8,193,000 <br />Annual operation and maintenance costs . . 19,000 17,000 <br /> Replacement storage <br /> <br />The need for replacement storage to protect downstream water rights <br />against interference by Parshall project diversions was previously men- <br />tioned. Sites for storage have not been determined for this report. In <br />fUture planning consideration might be given to replacement storage in <br />(1) Green Mountain Reservoir under agreements made in accordance with <br />Senate Document 80, 75th Congress, 1st Session, (2) the potential Azure <br />or Kremmling Reservoir on the Colorado River immediately below Kremmling, <br />Colo., or (3) other sites above the Shoshone Powerplant of the Public <br />Service Company of Colorado located near Glenwood Springs, Colo. This <br />powerplant has the highest water right on the Colorado River for which <br />replacement storage would be required. Consideration should also be <br />given to a mUltiple-purpose reservoir that would include irrigation, <br />hydroelectric power production, recreation, and fish and wildlife propa- <br />gation in its purposes. Since the replacement storage may possibly be <br />provided without cost to the Parshall project, the costs have not been <br />estimated for this report. <br /> <br />Pro.ject Lands <br /> <br />~le project land area was classified to reconnaissance standards <br />in 1951 and the results are outlined in the 1954 status report on the <br />Cliffs-Divide project. <br /> <br />Lands that would be irrigated by the Parshall project are on old <br />river benches and terraces dissected by streams draining the area and <br />in the valleys or flood plains of those streams. Most of the lands <br />slope gently toward the streams and are readily adaptable for irrigation <br />farming. The lands are high in elevation, varying from 7,400 to 8,800 <br />feet above sea level and averaging about 8,000 feet. <br /> <br />7 <br />