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<br />Exhibit A <br /> <br />Scope of Work <br /> <br />WATER ACTIVITY NAME - <br /> <br />Rio Grande Reservoir Multi-Use Enlargement and Rehabilitation Preliminary Design <br /> <br />GRANT RECIPIENT - <br />San Luis Valley Irrigation District <br /> <br />FUNDING SOURCE - Statewide Account $288,000.00 <br /> <br />BACKGROUND <br />The San Luis Valley Irrigation District (District) is an irrigation district formed and <br />operating pursuant to Title 37, Article 42 of the Colorado Revised Statutes. Its office is <br />located in Center, Colorado. The District owns and operates the Farmers Union Canal, <br />which diverts water from the Rio Grande River and delivers it through a network of over <br />100 miles of ditches to nearly 62,000 acres of land in Alamosa, Rio Grande and Saguache <br />Counties. It also owns and operates Rio Grande Reservoir located on the headwaters of <br />the Rio Grande River in Hinsdale, County, 20 miles southwest of Creede, Colorado. It is <br />the only on-stream main stem reservoir on the Rio Grande in Colorado. The Reservoir's <br />current storage capacity is approximately 54,000 acre-feet, the majority of which is <br />presently used for the storage of irrigation water for use within the District. <br /> <br />District is finalizing its report analyzing the possible enlargement of Rio Grande <br />Reservoir and the potential benefits such an enlargement may provide. In general, the <br />report concludes that it is likely that the height of the dam can be safely raised a <br />maximum of approximately 10 feet, which would yield an additional 10,000 acre-feet of <br />storage. This would bring the Reservoir's total storage capacity to approximately 64,000 <br />acre- feet. <br /> <br />The findings of this report support further analysis of enlarging and rehabilitating the <br />Reservoir for several uses including storage of water to: <br />. better meet Colorado's obligations under the Rio Grande Compact <br />. re-regulation of flows to support instream and riparian needs <br />. storage of additional supplies of augmentation water to meet the growing <br />domestic and commercial development in the Rio Grande Basin <br />. the development of a larger sustainable conservation pool within the Reservoir for <br />fish habitat, flood control and re-design of the outlet works to provide consistent <br />and safe water delivery, particularly during high flow periods. <br /> <br />I <br />