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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />001877 <br /> <br />USES ABOVE NAVAJO DAM AND RESERVOIR <br /> <br />The potential upstream depletions a.bove. Navajo Damalld Reservoir <br /> <br /> <br />will be the San Juan-Chama, Pine River Extension and Weminuche Pass <br /> <br />transmountain diversion projects. The Pine River and Weminuche Pass <br /> <br />projects will be charged to Colorado and the San Juan-Chama Project <br /> <br />will be a use under the New Mexico compact allotment. <br /> <br />Some parties consider that the contemplated use.s by these two <br /> <br />authorized projects (Pine River Extension and Weminuche Pass) are not <br /> <br />necessarUy speCifically assigned to these two projects, but could be <br /> <br />considered as reservations of water for future uses anywhere in Colorado. <br /> <br />They cite as authority for this assumption, Article XIV, part (a) (2) of <br /> <br />the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact. <br /> <br />PINE RIVER PROJECT EXTENSION <br /> <br />The Pine River Project began in 1877 when small irrigation ditches <br /> <br />were construoted for the Indian agencies and a few small farm tracts. <br /> <br />On October 25, 1930, the Federal Court granted a priority to the <br /> <br />Indians as of July 25, 1868, for 213 cfs of water from the river for <br /> <br />irrigating 16,966 acres. Construction of Vallecito Dam began in 1938, <br /> <br />its reservoir impounds approximatelY 126,000 acre-feet. Present <br /> <br />acreage of th.e Pine River Project is 36,680 acres with a contlimlplated <br /> <br />development to 69,000 acres authorized under the Extension with an <br /> <br />additional;.consumptive use of 62.800 acre-feet. <br /> <br />;21- <br />17 <br />