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<br />Water Developm.ent: <br />Federal <br /> <br />Paonia Reservoir <br /> <br />CRSP participating project - completed in 1962; <br /> <br />water rights appropriated 1935; adjudicated in 1954. <br /> <br />Original storage r-..I18,000 af; <br /> <br />now r-..I15,000 AF due to sedimentation. <br /> <br />Irrigates 15,000 acres <br /> <br />NFWCD formed in 1941 to administer and repay the Paonia project. <br />Fire Mtn Canal Company operates the reservoir by sub-contract. <br />