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Jackson Gulch Reservoir Project Allocations <br />(Structures Outside San Juan Model) <br />Name WDID project Allocation <br />(acre-feed <br />Exon Ditch 340505 50 <br />John Carter Ditch 340538 400 <br />Crader Ditch 340513 115 <br />Smith Ditch 340566 10 <br />E.C. Smith Ditch 340521 93 <br />West Mancos Water Supply System 340578 120 <br />(Mesa Verde National Park) <br />Mancos Rural Water Supply Co. N/A 130 <br />Total 918 <br />It should be noted that two of these structures, the John Carter Ditch and the Crader Ditch do <br />not have adjudicated direct flow rights and rely primarily on project water from Jackson <br />Gulch Reservoir as their source of irrigation water, supplemented with diversions made <br />under "free river" conditions. The District 34 water commissioner maintains records of these <br />diversions and has separately identified the irrigated acreage for the John Carter Ditch (174 <br />acres). The irrigated acreage under the Crader Ditch is accounted for under the Crystal Creek <br />Ditch and the Lee and Burke Ditch. <br />2.5 Dolores Project (McPhee Reservoir) <br />The Dolores Project was developed by the USBR as a participating project in the Colorado <br />River Storage Project (CRSP). The project provides regulation of the flows of the Dolores <br />River to provide supplemental water supplies for irrigation, municipal, industrial, fish and <br />wildlife, and recreational uses in the Montezuma Valley area of the McElmo Creek drainage <br />and the area to the southwest of the Dolores River near the community of Dove Creek, <br />Colorado. The project will also provide significant irrigation water supplies to the Ute <br />Mountain Ute Indian Tribe, as well as municipal water for the town of Towaoc. According to <br />the Definite Plan Report, and as currently envisioned, the project would develop an average <br />annual water supply of about 126,600 acre-feet, including 90,900 acre-feet for irrigation of <br />61,660 acres, 8,700 acre-feet for municipal and industrial use and 29,300 acre-feet for fish <br />and wildlife enhancement. The project is managed by the Dolores Water Conservancy <br />District. <br />The principal feature of the Dolores Project is the McPhee Dam and Reservoir (WDID <br />713614), located on the mainstem of the Dolores River, just downstream of the town of <br />Dolores. This storage reservoir has a total capacity of 381,100 acre-feet of which 229,000 <br />acre-feet is active storage and 152,100 acre-feet is inactive, including a dead storage pool of <br />100 acre-feet. The active storage is presently allocated to the following uses: <br />San Juan & Dolores River Basin Information 2-12 <br />