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<br /> <br />IN REPLY REFER TO: <br /> <br />.... <br /> <br />UNITED STATES <br />DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR <br /> <br />BUREAU OF RECLAMATION <br /> <br />Post Office Box 640 <br />Durango, Colorado <br /> <br />May 7, 1954 <br /> <br />To: Regionnl Director, Region 4, Snlt !aka City, Utah <br /> <br />Fr=: Areo. Engineer <br /> <br />Subject: Transmitto.l of Status Report--Dolores Project, Colo.. <br /> <br />The accompanying report sttmmo.rizes results of preltm1no.ry <br />investigo.tions mo.de of means of utilizing presently unused wo.ter of the <br />Dolores River in the MontezUJ:lO. Valley and Dove Creek o.reas of the San <br />Juan Bo.sin in Colorado. <br /> <br />Do.to. from previous investigo.tions were utilized in the studies <br />and only 0. minimum of field work WIlS :performed to obtain additional data. <br />The investisation waS carried out only in sufficient detail to deteroine <br />whether !:lore thoroU{lh studies are wo.=anted o.nd, on 0. finding in the <br />o.ffirmntive, to Give direction to those studies. <br /> <br />The project plan described in the report evolved from consid- <br />eration of various !:leans of bringinG WIlter to the land and of different <br />scales of developoont. It represents the maximum development possible <br />frotl storace only at the McPhee Reservoir site without inundntinS the <br />town of Dolores. When !:lore CO!:lplete o.nd nccurate data are asse!:lb1ed in <br />future studies, revisions in the plan may be found to be desirable. <br /> <br />Four land areas tho.t would not be i=igo.ted under the plan <br />described should be further considered before the final project plan is <br />foroulnted. These areas, further discussed in Cho.pter VIII of the report, <br />o.re identified as follows: <br /> <br />(1) From 4,000 to 6,000 acres of unclassified land located <br />between the MbntezUJ:lO. Valley and Dove Creek areas that could be <br />served frotl the potential Yellow Jacket Canal. <br /> <br />(2) About 3,500 acres of unclassified land ix:u:ledio.tely south <br />of the Montezum Valley area in the Southern Ute Indian Reservo.tion <br />tho.t could be served frem the eXisting Montezuma Valley irrigation <br />syste!:l. <br /> <br />(3) Approximtely 6,000 acres of arable land in the Montezuoa <br />Valley oxea tho.t could be irrie;ated from two separate extensions of <br />the existing irrigation systec. <br /> <br />1 <br />:1 <br />