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<br />I~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />livestock operations and increased the need for more farm-grown <br /> <br />feed. Many of the farmers have depressed living standards because <br /> <br />of limited agricultural production. <br /> <br />Additional municipal and industrial water is needed to <br /> <br />meet the requests of local municipalities and communities. This <br /> <br />need for additional municipal and industrial water is accentuated <br /> <br /> <br />by the population growth anticipated in the years ahead. The <br /> <br /> <br />already important recreational attractions of the area soon will <br /> <br /> <br />be greatly increased with completion of the Curecanti unit of the <br /> <br /> <br />Colorado River Storage project. <br /> <br />Control of flood flows of the Uncompahgre River is needed <br /> <br />to prevent the inundation of farm lands and frequent channel <br /> <br />changes that now occur during the spring snowmelt period and dur- <br /> <br />ing heavy rainstorms. <br /> <br />Under the proposed plan of development, irrigation water <br /> <br />supplies would be increased by an average of 60,300 acre-feet <br /> <br />annually for use on l4,900 acres of full service land and l3,720 <br /> <br />acres of supplemental service land. Municipal and industrial <br /> <br />supplies averaging l5,000 acre-feet yearly would be provided by <br /> <br /> <br />the project. <br /> <br /> <br />The Dallas Creek Project will cost approximately $37.8 <br /> <br /> <br />million. Of this, approximately $33.9 million will be repaid to <br /> <br /> <br />the federal government with only about $3.9 million nonreimburs- <br /> <br /> <br />able. Approximately $l/3 million has already been paid by power <br /> <br />Dallas Creek Project <br /> <br />-2- <br />