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Table of Contents <br />Table of Contents ....................................................................................................................................... i <br />1. The San Juan and Dolores River Basins ............................................................................ ...... l-1 <br />1.1. Physical Geography ........................................................................................................ ...... 1-1 <br />1.2. Human and Economic Factors ........................................................................................ ...... 1-2 <br />1.3. Water Resources Development ....................................................................................... ...... 1-5 <br />1.4. Water Rights Administration and Operations ................................................................. ...... 1-5 <br />2. San Juan and Dolores River Projects and Special Operations ........................................ ...... 2-1 <br />2.1 San Juan Chama Project .................................................................................................. ...... 2-1 <br />2.2 Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company ......................................................................... ...... 2-3 <br />2.3 Summit Reservoir System ............................................................................................... ...... 2-7 <br />2.4 Jackson Gulch Reservoir (Mancos Project) .................................................................... ...... 2-9 <br />2.5 Dolores Project (McPhee Reservoir) .............................................................................. .... 2-12 <br />2.6 Florida Project (Lemon Reservoir) ................................................................................. .... 2-15 <br />2.7 Pine River Project (Vallecito Reservoir) ........................................................................ .... 2-18 <br />2.8 Navajo Reservoir and New Mexico Water Right Operations ......................................... .... 2-21 <br />2.9 La Plata River Compact .................................................................................................. .... 2-29 <br />2.10 Miscellaneous Water Right Considerations For San Juan Model ................................ .... 2-30 <br />2.10.1 Tacoma Hydroelectric Project ....................................................................... .... 2-30 <br />2.10.2 Ames Hydroelectric Project ........................................................................... .... 2-31 <br />2.10.3 Nucla Power Plant .......................................................................................... .... 2-32 <br />2.10.4 Highline Canal (C - C Ditch) ......................................................................... .... 2-32 <br />2.10.5 Gurley Reservoir ............................................................................................ .... 2-32 <br />2.10.6 Miscellaneous Transbasin Diversions ............................................................ .... 2-33 <br />3. San Juan and Dolores River Structure Information and Basin Meeting Notes ............. ...... 3-1 <br />3.1. Annotated Structure List ................................................................................................. ...... 3-1 <br />3.2. Basin Meeting Notes ....................................................................................................... ...... 3-3 <br />3.2.1 Water Districts in Division 7 & Dolores River Basin ....................................... ...... 3-4 <br />3.2.2 Water Districts in Division 4 -San Miguel River Basin .................................. .... 3-25 <br />3.2.3 Addenda to Division 4 and Division 7 Meeting Notes .................................... .... 3-32 <br />4. San Juan and Dolores Basin Instream Flow Rights ................................................................. ...... 4-1 <br />5. Previous San Juan and Dolores Basin Modeling Efforts ......................................................... ...... 5-1 <br />5.1 San Juan River Basin Model (U. S. Bureau of Reclamation) .......................................... ...... 5-1 <br />5.2 San Miguel River Basin Model (Boyle Engineering) ..................................................... ...... 5-2 <br />5.3 Animas/La Plata Project Model (Hydrosphere Resource Consultants) .......................... ...... 5-3 <br />5.4 Navajo Reservoir Operation Model (Leonard Rice Consulting Water Engineers) ........ ...... 5-4 <br />5.5 Dolores Project Operation Model (USBR) ..................................................................... ...... 5-5 <br />San Juan & Dolores River Basin Information <br />