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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8200.776
Description
Uncompahgre River General
State
CO
Basin
Gunnison
Water Division
4
Date
7/1/1943
Author
John R Erickson
Title
Consumptive Use of Irrigation Water in Lower Uncompahgre Valley
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Report/Study
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<br />Ml~28 <br /> <br />-120- <br /> <br />III - IRllIGATION <br /> <br />,10. Historicals <br /> <br />Water for irrigation was first diverted for use at the Los Pinos <br />Indian Agency, one mile north of Colona. This ditch is still in use, now <br />being known as the Old Agency and having a priority date of August I, 187,. <br />Its headgate is in \later District 68 and its right was decreed in that <br />district. <br /> <br />In Water District 41. the earliest priority from the River be- <br />longs to the Reservation Ditch. This ditch served Old Fort Crawford. The <br />site of the Fort is near the present post office of Unoompahgre. Its de- <br />cree has a date of July 1. 1880. <br /> <br />Many small ditches were construoted in District 68 from 1875 to <br />Since 1880 more than 170 priorities have besn granted in this die- <br />but they are in general for very small quantities of water. <br /> <br />1880. <br />triot, <br /> <br />On the lower river the real development took plaoe between 1882 <br />nnd 1888 when the direct flow water of the river vas entirely appropria- <br />ted and put to use. <br /> <br />By 1890 there had been 100,000 o.ores of land taken up and pat- <br />ented. Out of that area there ,^"s actually less than 30,000 aores under <br />cultivation and under the unregulated water supply conditions there was <br />often shortage of ve.ter for much of that land. <br /> <br />The shortage of Vlllter supplies naturally brought out sohemes <br />for supplementing the stream flow of the River. One of the early plans <br />for supplementing the water supply of the valley was to bring water over <br />the Cerro divide from the Cimarron. The scheme was aotively promoted and <br />such a ditch was construoted. However, the water supply ohtained through <br />this ditoh was less than had been anticipated, and it now serves Bostwick <br />Park and small areas on the upper end of Dry Cedar Creek (See Plate II). <br />Another plan was proposed by F. C. lAuzon, Vlho claimed it had been re- <br />vealed to him in a dream. His plan was to drive a tunnel from the Gunni- <br />son River to the Unoompahgre Valley. In 1890 he began to seek support <br />for his idea, and by 1894 a survey had been made which proved that the <br />tunnel was physically possible. Finnncially the project was too much for <br />the looal interests to undertal:e and state aid V<!lS sought. Finally by <br />means of politioal trading an appropriation for ~2"OOO was set up by <br />the State Legi slature for starting work on the tunnel. This Act was <br />passed and beclll!\e effective April 11, 1901. Ba.sed on surveys made for <br />the U. S, Geological Survey by A. Linooln Fellows. a tWlIlel was started <br />by the Sta.te in Deoember 1901. After 900 feet of tunnel had been driven, <br />the money gave out and v.ork aeased in the Fall of 1902. The Colorado <br />Legislature transferred all property rights including the tunnel to the <br />Federal Government on l'Iarch 16, 1903. This transfer was finally aacom- <br />
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