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<br />e. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />#' <br /> <br />O~1232 <br /> <br />PLAN OF DEVELOPMENT <br /> <br />72. Occasion for report. - At the request of the District Engineer, <br /> <br />Corps of ~ngineers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, a study has been made of the <br /> <br />irrigation possibilities of the potential Trinidad Reservoir Project. The <br /> <br />investigations as conducted by the Bureau of Reclamation and reported here- <br /> <br />in comprise a study of the water supply available for irrigation use, an <br /> <br />analysis of the irrigation requirements and problems of the area now irri- <br />" <br /> <br />gated from the Purgatoire River below the site of the proposed Trinidad <br /> <br />Reservoir, a plan for the conservation of water and its utilization in <br /> <br />meeting the requirements of the irrigated area, and a determination of the <br /> <br />economic justification and financial feasibility of the irrigation projeot. <br /> <br />Throughout the irrigation investigation the procedures followed and the <br /> <br />conclusions reached have been fully coordinated with the investigations and <br /> <br />plans of the Corps of Engineers for the reservoir project. <br /> <br />73. Previous investigations. - An early investigation of irrigation <br /> <br />and flood contrdl potentialities in the Trinidad area was started by the <br />. <br /> <br />Bureau of Reclamation in January 1937. A tentative report (unpublished) <br />enti tled "Trinidad Irrigation and Flood Control Project - Colorado", was <br />completed in September 1940. After the damaging flood of April 1942, the <br /> <br />second largest on record, the investigation was reopened and additional <br />