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<br />~ <br />" <br /> <br /> <br />Big Sandy Dam, Means Canal and the upper portion of Eden .Canal <br />on the Eden Project, Wyoming,have been COm,pleted.Yet to be construc- <br />ted are the lower 4 miles of Eden Canal, Little Sandy.diversion dam and. <br />canal, and lateral and drain systems.. To comply with recommendations <br />of local and State interests the planwasamenlied to change the means of <br />qiverUng from Little Sandy Cree~. > <br /> <br />In the San Juan River Basin the Bureau of Reclamation has been <br />investigating the San Juan Project, and. the B~reauollridian AIIair sits <br />Shiproc~ Project. Because common water stl>rage and conveyance . <br />facilities would be used, the agencies have agreed to investigate .the <br />projects jointly, aa the Navajo Project. A report is scheduled for com.- <br />pletion in about two year s. . > <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The Regional Director's proposed report of March 1953 on Fruit- <br />growers Dam Project Extension, Colorado was distributed for comments <br />by interested Federal, State and local agencies. Minor revisions were <br />made as a result, and the report is being processed for further handling, <br />as required by the Flood Control Act of 1944,: before being submitted for <br />consideration by Congress and the President, A reconnaissance report <br />of Cliffs-Divide Project, COlorado, involving potential water resource <br />development in the Colorado River Basin above Gunnison River, is being <br />processed. A preliminary report on the Savery-Pot Hoo~ Project, <br />Colorado and Wyoming, will be completed in:a few weeks.. Copies will <br />be distributed for comments by intereated agencies. <br /> <br />Work on th.e second barrel of the San Diego aqueduct haa.c.ontinued <br />on schedule. The northern section fa euentially complete and the southern <br />section 40 percent complete. In May acont~act was awarded lor constr1,1C- <br />tion of the last unit of the Coachella Division, All-American Canal System. <br />It consists of about 4,600 acres southwest 01 Indio. Work is about 75 <br />percent complete. Opening of 21 new farm units for settlement by home- <br />steader s will be announced early next year. · On the Wellton-Mohawk <br />Division, GUll. Project, Arizona, the main canal with three pumping <br />plants.is complete except for one pump at each plant. .Units land 2 on <br />the Mohawk distribution system are compl.ete. Unit 3 on the Ml>hawk and <br />Unit 1 On the Dome system are under constr,uction. Other.distribution <br />systems will be added. The first public not~ce, offering 28 farm units <br />for sale, was iuued in June. Closing date lor filing was November 25, <br />1953, with drawing acheduled for next Janu~ry. Many application a were <br />received; however , it is poasible that all 28 units will be assigned to <br />preaent home.steaders from the Riverton Project, Wyoming. Under Public <br />Law 258, 83rd Congreas, entrymen on Reclamation projects having a unit <br />insufficient to support a farm familY pur suant to land ClaasiIication, > . <br />receive fir st priority in assignment. of new units on other Bureau projects. <br />By the middle of next year 54 additional units should be opened for sale <br />in the'Wellton-Mohawk Diviaion. . <br /> <br />A contract was made for. delive;y of water to the Yuma Auxiliary <br />Project through diversion worka of the Gila; Project. Fiut delivery .of <br />water through Gila Project facilities was nj,ade July 6, 1953. Belore <br />then the Auxiliary Project pumped water from the East Main Canllol 9f> > <br />the Yuma Project. A similar contract has'been made with the North GUll. <br />Valley Irrigation District for water from G,ila Project facilities. <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />,4- <br />