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<br />SUMMABY--DOLORES PROJECT <br /> <br />LOCATION: Suuthwestern Colorado, Upper Colorado River Bnsin. <br /> <br />PLAN OF m....'ELOFNFu.'1T <br />-- --- <br /> <br />The McPhee Reservoir with 0. total cnpo.city of 328,000 acre-feet <br />'me. an aottve capacHy of 153,000 nere-feet would be creo.ted on the <br />Dolores River by a d.o.m 10 miles downatreQ.l!l frOD. the town of Dolores. t. <br />luw divide between the Dolores and San Junn River Basins would form the <br />wost bnnk of the resG"t"voir. '!'wo existing cal1O.1 outle'~s throueh the <br />-divide, t~e Great Cut and the No.1 tunnel, each survine to pass Dolures <br />Ri VGr wator di vartod by the MonteztlllUl. Valley Irr-i(ill.tion Ccmpany, would lJ(; <br />fil:'ed or plUBBOd nnd then inundated. One reservoir outlet struct.ure <br />would be plMed in the Great Cut and nnother in the llew McnteztlllUl. tunnel, <br />the intake of which would be 17 feet bel"" that of the No. 1 tunnel. <br />Existing ca.no.ls of the irriGation company would be served from both out- <br />lets. They would be enlnr~d as necessnry to provide supplemental water <br />to lo.nds now irri~nted in Mon-toz= Valley nnd 0. full supply to ndjo.cent <br />dry lands. A new Yellcw Jo.cket Canal would convey ,,(!.ter northwest 24 <br />wiles from the Grent Cut outlet to the po-tentio.l Ncrth Clnd Sou1;h CMnls <br />toot would serve unirri(!ated lands in the Dove Creek erell.. Laternls <br />would be Constructed to serve 0.11 project lands not presently irri(lllted. <br /> <br />.IRRIG('41mi <br /> <br />MontezUI:lll Valley are::! <br />Supplemntll.l irriGution service land <br />Full i:riSll.tion service land <br />Dove Creek area <br />Full irrication service lo.nc. <br />Total <br /> <br />Area irri- <br />f1n teL- <br /> <br />30,550 acre s <br />9,450 acres <br /> <br />:,nnunl wn.ter <br />supply <br /> <br />26,000 e.cres <br />6'6,000 acres <br /> <br />14,170 acre-feet <br />31,780 acre-feet <br /> <br />~9,840 acre-feet' <br />1 5,790 acre;'i'eet <br />I $ ~- ""D.....,.-,c~ <br />69,370 acre-feet <br /> <br />Depletion of Colorado River flow <br /> <br />. COST AND REPAYMENT <br /> <br />Construction cost (all allocable to irriBation) <br />Repayable by water users in 50 years <br />Repayment assistance required <br />Annual operation, mintenance, and rep1o.cerent <br />costs all n able by water users) <br />1: Exclusive of $42,000 expended from the <br />Coloro.d.o River Developrent Fund. <br /> <br />.1/$26,179,000 <br />1,533,000 <br />24,646,000 <br /> <br />112,400 <br />nonreiobursable <br /> <br />BENEFIT-COST Ri,TIO <br /> <br />Averace unnunl benefits would compare with the annual equivl?lent C0sts <br />in U l'l\l.tio of 1.1 tv 1. <br />