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<br />PROJECT SERVICE AREA AND FACILITIES <br /> <br />WATER SUPPLY FACILITIES AND PHYSICAL ASSETS <br /> <br />Beaver Reservoir is the only reservoir presently in the BRC's <br />holdings and is the only physical asset of the company. The dam is <br />an earthfill dam, approximately 113 feet high and 870 feet long, <br />and stores 1,600 acre- feet of water for irrigation use. The <br />reservoir water is routed through the ditch and delivery systems <br />owned and operated by the Minnesota Canal and Reservoir Company and <br />the Turner Ditch Company. The Lone Cabin Ditch and Reservoir <br />Company receives its proportionate share of the Beaver Reservoir <br />water through an exchange diversion from Middle Fork Creek, a <br />tributary to the Beaver Reservoir watershed, a ditch and delivery <br />system owned and operated by the Lone Cabin Ditch and Reservoir <br />Company. <br /> <br />BEAVER RESERVOIR SERVICE AREA <br /> <br />The water stored in Beaver Reservoir is discharged to the East <br />Fork of Minnesota Creek which flows into Minnesota Creek. From <br />Minnesota Creek, the water is diverted into the Minnesota Ditch or <br />the Turner Ditch as shown on Figure 4-1. These ditches serve part <br />of the area to the east and south of paonia, as shown on Figure 4- <br />2. In addition, Beaver Reservoir water is exchanged for water out <br />of Middle Fork Creek and delivered to the Lone Cabin by its ditch <br />system, thereby extending the effective service area to the entire <br />area shown on Figure 4-2. The location of Lone Cabin Reservoir and <br />its delivery system is shown on Figure 4-1. (See Appendix G) . <br /> <br />PHYSIOGRAPHY OF SERVICE AREA <br /> <br />The Minnesota, Turner, and Lone Cabin ditches serve a combined <br />service area of approximately 4,300 acres of which approximately <br />3,400 acres is irrigated. The irrigated area is located primarily <br />on gently sloping mesas and along valley bottoms. The soils are <br />typically alluvial in the form of stream, terrace, pediment and fan <br />deposits. Shale from the Mancos Formation outcrops extensively in <br />and around the service area. <br /> <br />POPULATION AND EMPLOYMENT <br /> <br />Population and employment information for the service area can <br />be related to the labor and employment statistics for 1985-1991 for <br />Delta and Gunnison counties. The population in and around the <br />service area was generally deoreasing until 1990, when population <br />increased. Unemployment peaked in 1986-1987, decreasing until <br />1990, when it increased slightly in Gunnison County and more <br /> <br />Page 8 of 15 <br />