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<br />. <br /> <br />5. Shoshone Power Plant <br />It was assumed that the Shoshone water right or 1,250 crs <br />would be the primary controlling water call for the Colorado <br />River and its tributaries upstream from Glenwood Springs. <br /> <br />6. Cameo Gaqinq Station <br />The Cameo gaging station on the Colorado River is located <br />upstream of the diversion point of the Grand Valley Reclamation <br />Project. The amount or \~ater required for this project was <br />determined by Mr. J. R. Riter, previously an hydrologist for the <br />Bureau of Reclamation. These values are contained in Senate <br />Document 80 and were assumed to represent the Cameo requirement. <br />During the winter, water is required at Cameo to satisfy the <br />Grand Valley Power Plant near Palisade. It was also assumed <br />that the flow de~and at Cameo would be the secondary controlling <br />1~~'Jater callll for the Colorado River and its tributaries. <br />In Senate Document 80 it is stated that the present (1937) <br />irrigated area along the Colorado River between Palisade and the <br />Colorado-Utah state line is 70,600 acres, and that the additional <br />arable area in this region, not now irrigated, is as follows: <br /> <br />Ac res <br /> <br />Under constructed canals <br /> <br />Pumping unit of Grand Valley project, ror <br />which canal capacity has been provided <br /> <br />Lands on Mack Flat, no present provision <br />ror water service <br /> <br />13,800 <br /> <br />10,000 <br /> <br />TOTAL <br /> <br />9.000 <br />32,800 <br /> <br />Maximum irrigation demand at the head of the Grand Valley for <br />the present irrigated area and for the additional area of 23,800 <br />acres ror which provision has been made in the constructed canals, <br />is estimated as 1,700 cfs. With maximum irrigation demands there <br />is a full water supply for the Orchard Mesa pumping plant and for <br />the Grand Valley pO\l'Jer plant. In the nonirrigation season the <br /> <br />-5- <br />