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<br />. <br /> <br />i~;~ <br />-~"_:~ <br /> <br />.:eo <br />,,'f, <br />!lhJ! <br />.'-.;.,' <br /> <br />only a fraction of their potential. Communities in the project <br /> <br />area, particularly Dove Creek and Cortez, need additional water <br /> <br />for future growth. Dove Creek's present supply is excessively <br /> <br />costly, and without the Dolores Project, Cortez will find it <br /> <br />necessary to acquire rights to water now used for irrigation, <br /> <br />which would be expensive and would take valuable land out of pro- <br /> <br />duction. <br /> <br />Under the proposed plan of development, irrigation water <br /> <br />supplies would be increased by an average of 120,800 acre-feet <br /> <br />annually for use in 61,000 acres of land. This would include <br /> <br />32,340 acres of full service lands of which 1,500 acres are Indian <br /> <br />lands in the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation. In addition, 28,660 <br /> <br />acres of presently irrigated lands will be served with badly needed <br /> <br />supplemental water. Municipal and industrial supplies averaging <br /> <br />6,100 acre-feet annually, including l,200 acre-feet for Dove Creek <br /> <br />and 4,900 acre-feet for Cortez would be provided by the project. <br /> <br />The Dolores project will cost approximately $46.6 <br /> <br />million. Of this, more than $40.3 million will be repaid to the <br /> <br />federal government with only about $6.3 million nonreimbursable. <br /> <br />Over $l/2 million of cost has already been paid by power revenues <br /> <br />from the Colorado River Development Fund and by the Bureau of <br /> <br />Indian Affairs. <br /> <br />The benefit-cost ratio of this project is 2.03 to 1. The <br /> <br />feasibility report was approved and adopted by the secretary of <br /> <br />Dolores Project <br /> <br />-2- <br />