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Reservoir as part of the operation of the Paradox Salinity Control Unit. The yield of these water <br />rights is relatively small and they are not separately accounted for by the Dolores Water <br />Conservancy District in the operation of the project. <br />Dolores Water Conservancy District Water Rights <br />Name Adjud. Date Approp. Date Admin. No. Amount <br />Main Canal No. 1 02-01-1892 11-25-1885 13113.00000 505 cfs <br />McPhee Res. Inlet 03-22-1963 09-10-1940 33125.00000 585 cfs <br />McPhee Reservoir 03-22-1963 09-10-1940 33125.00000 750,000 <br />acre-feet <br />At this time, all of these water rights remain conditional. The first listed water right was <br />acquired from the MVIC pursuant to the MVIC's 1977 contract with the District and the <br />Towaoc-Highline Canal Agreement. This water right will be changed by court action to allow <br />storage in McPhee Reservoir and exchange from McPhee Reservoir to Groundhog Reservoir. It <br />is noted that the Dolores Water Conservancy District also owns a number of conditional direct <br />flow and storage decrees for other project components that are no longer part of the project <br />(e.g. Monument Creek Reservoir, Dawson Draw Reservoir, etc.). <br />2.6 Florida Project (Lemon Reservoir) <br />The Florida Project was constructed by the USBR in the early 1960's as a participating project <br />in the Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP). The principal feature of the project, Lemon <br />Dam and Reservoir, stores surplus water available during the spring runoff months and <br />subsequently releases the water to supplement the late summer irrigation demands for a <br />number of senior water rights on the Florida River southeast of Durango, Colorado. The project <br />provides supplemental irrigation water supplies to an estimated 13,750 acres and full service <br />irrigation to an estimated 5,700 acres for a total of 19,450 acres. The majority of the acreage is <br />located on the Florida Mesa while a smaller portion is located immediately adj acent to the <br />Florida River. The prof ect is managed by the Florida Water Conservancy District. <br />The project also involved rehabilitation of the diversion dam for the Florida Farmers Ditch, one <br />of the major users of project water, enlargement of portions of the Florida Farmers Ditch and <br />the Florida Canal and rehabilitation and extension of existing irrigation laterals in the service <br />area. The first irrigation water from the prof ect was delivered in 1964. <br />Lemon Reservoir (WDID 303581) is an earth-fill dam constructed across the Florida River <br />about 15 miles northeast of Durango. It has a total capacity of 40,140 acre-feet of which 39,030 <br />acre-feet is the active pool. The remainder of the storage includes 350 acre-feet of dead storage <br />and 760 acre-feet of inactive storage reserved by the United States. Lemon Reservoir has the <br />following decreed absolute storage rights. <br />San Juan & Dolores River Basin Information 2-15 <br />