Laserfiche WebLink
Reservoir are recorded under WDID 320815 and the total deliveries to irrigation are still <br />reflected as the sum of WDID 320702 and WDID 320700. Since approximately 1981, <br />irrigation water delivered to the "U" Lateral has been recorded under WDID 320772. It is <br />also noted that after completion of the Dolores Project, project deliveries from McPhee <br />Reservoir to the Dove Creek Canal (WDID 322006) are also made through the outlet works <br />at Great Cut Dike. Deliveries to the Dove Creek Canal began in 1988 and are discussed in <br />more detail in this documentation under the heading Dolores Project. <br />The MVIC is the owner of the following absolute water rights decreed for diversion from the <br />Dolores River. These are the irrigation water rights that are currently delivered transbasin <br />through the Dolores Tunnel (WDID 714675) and the Great Cut Dike (WDID 714676). <br />MVIC Direct Flow Water Rights <br />Name Adjud. Date Approp. Date Admin. No. Amount <br />(cfs) <br />Main Canal No. 2 02-01-1892 OS-O1-1881 11444.00000 1.0 <br />Main Canal No. 1 02-01-1892 11-25-1885 13113.00000 707.7 <br />Main Canal No. 2 (AP) 02-01-1892 11-25-1885 13113.00000 707.7 <br />Main Canal No. 1 03-22-1963 11-25-1885 30667.13113 90.0 <br />Main Canal No. 2 (AP) 03-22-1963 11-25-1885 30667.13113 90.0 <br />Historically, the MVIC also owned a conditional direct flow water right in the amount of <br />592.3 cfs with an appropriation date of 11-25-1885 (administration date 13113.00000). As <br />part of the Towaoc-Highline Canal Agreement (See discussion under Dolores Project), 505 <br />cfs of this right was transferred to the Dolores Water Conservancy District. The remaining <br />87.3 cfs of this right that was retained by MVIC has priority over the District's use of the <br />right. The principal storage rights owned by the MVIC are as follows: <br />MVIC Storage Rights <br />Name Adjud. Date Approp. Date Admin. No. Amount <br />(cfs) <br />Narraguinnep Reservoir 12-18-1933 03-15-1888 15372.13954 5,969 <br />Narraguinnep Reservoir 12-18-1933 10-28-1907 21119.00000 3,306 <br />Narraguinnep Reservoir 12-18-1933 08-17-1922 26526.00000 11,527 <br />Narraguinnep Reservoir 03-22-1963 OS-O1-1956 38837.00000 1,653 <br />Groundhog Reservoir 12-18-1933 08-01-1905 20301.00000 10,623 <br />Groundhog Reservoir 12-18-1933 10-24-1929 29151.00000 11,086 <br />Totten Reservoir 12-18-1933 04-25-1907 20933.00000 400 <br />Totten Reservoir 03-22-1963 02-01-1951 36921.00000 3,000 <br />As part of the negotiated agreements, which provided for the construction of the Dolores <br />Project, the MVIC agreed to limit the diversions from the Dolores River to no more than <br />150,400 acre-feet per year. The diversions are further limited to no more than 72,000 acre- <br />feet during the months of April, May and June. This operation was projected to result in an <br />average non-project yield of about 130,000 acre-feet per year. The MVIC also contracted for <br />an allocation of Dolores project water in an amount necessary to fulfill the ideal irrigation <br />requirement on 26,300 acres of irrigable land under the system. This project water delivery is <br />San Juan & Dolores River Basin Information 2-5 <br />