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<br />00 <br />.... <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />. ~l"':'j <br /> <br />c <br /> <br />COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />7":?1 Stale Centennial Buildmg <br />1 31 3 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone G031 866-3441 <br />FA\ n03) 866-2115 <br /> <br />M E M 0 RAN DUM <br /> <br />Rov Romee <br />(jovernor <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />Members, CWCB <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />Sara Duncan <br /> <br />S,HJ Dunc.an <br />Deputv Dlfec,(H <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />April 24, 1992 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />Animas-La Plata Project <br /> <br />I thought it might be useful to give you background <br />information on the Animas-La Plata water project so that you <br />would be able to have the ability to weigh the repercussions <br />of the Bureau's delay in regard to construction. <br /> <br />The Animas-La Plata Project is located in La Plata and <br />Montezuma Counties in Colorado and in New Mexico in San Juan <br />County. The project is designed to develop water from the <br />Animas and La Plata Rivers to provide 118,100 acre-feet of <br />water for over 70,000 acres of land and 80,100 acre-feet for <br />municipal and industrial uses. The project has two storage <br />features: the Ridges Basin Reservoir located approximately <br />three miles southwest of the City of Durango and the Southern <br />Ute Reservoir located on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation <br />on the Colorado-New Mexico border. The Durango pumping plant <br />located in the Animas River just south of the Narrow Gauge <br />train station in Durango would pump Animas River water to the <br />Ridges Basin Reservoir and the stored water would be released <br />back to the Animas River for Aztec, Farmington and other New <br />Mexico municipal and industrial users. Ridges Basin would <br />also store industrial and irrigation water for the Ute <br />Mountain Ute Indians and water for the Colorado irrigators as <br />well as municipal and industrial water for Durango and the <br />surrounding communities. The Ridges Basin pumping plant <br />located on the western edge of the reservoir would pump water <br />from the reservoir into the Dry Side Canal into the La Plata <br />River drainage. <br /> <br />The Southern Ute Reservoir would store La Plata River <br />flows diverted into the reservoir through the Southern Ute <br />Diversion Dam and Canal. Water stored in the Southern Ute <br />Reservoir would be released for full and supplemental service <br />lands in New Mexico and for municipal and industrial water <br />needs of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe. The capacity of the <br />Ridges Basin Dam totals 280,040 acre-feet with an active <br />capacity of 130,000 acre-feet. The capacity of the Southern <br />