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<br />PLAN OF DEVELOPMENT <br /> <br />Project Purppses <br /> <br />The Dallas Creek Project would regulate flows of the Uncompahgre <br />River and tributary streams to make water available for municipal and <br />industrial use and irrigation. It would also create new recreational <br />opportunities, benefit fisheries, and provide flood control. Some bene- <br />fits would incidentally result from highway improvements. <br /> <br />Usable water supplies would be increased by an average of about <br />65,800 acre-feet annually as a result of project development. Approxi- <br />mately 29,500 acre-feet of the supply would be used for industrial pur- <br />poses, 27,500 acre-feet for municipal purposes, and 8,800 acre-feet for <br />irrigation. The irrigation supplies would be provided to approximately <br />7,350 acres of land, including 3,470 acres with supplemental service and <br />3,880 acres with full service. Gradually, as the population of the proj- <br />ect area increases and land holdings are divided, it is anticipated that <br />some of the irrigation supply would be converted to municipal use to meet <br />increasing needs for water for outdoor residential use on lawns, gardens, <br />and small residential tracts. Because of the uncertainties involved,how- <br />ever, the conversions have no~ been included in the project plan. <br /> <br />The project municipal supplies would be made available to communities <br />and rural areas in the Uncompahgre River Valley and on Log Hill Mesa. All <br />of the industrial supplies would be 'made available in the river valley. <br />They would be provided for energy development under the option agreement <br />of Kemmerer Coal Coampany with the Tri-County Water Conservancy District <br />and also to smaller industrial users. All of the project full service <br />lands would be on Log Hill Mesa while supplemental service lands wouldbe <br />located both on the mesa and in the valleys of the Uncompahgre River and <br />tributary streams. <br /> <br />~ ect Plan <br /> <br />Water for the Dallas Creek Project would be provided by storage in <br />two reservoirs--Ridgway Reservoir on the Uncompahgre River and Dallas <br />Divide Reservoir on.Pleasant Valley Creek--and by pumping of natural stream- <br />flows from Dallas Creek and the Uncompahgre River through the Ridgway Pump- <br />ing System. Some water also would be developed from local streams on Log <br />Hill Mesa. Exchanges of project supplies with existing supplies would be <br />effected to permit optimum utilization of the water available. <br /> <br />, <br />, <br /> <br />,. <br />