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Vallecito Reservoir Project Entitlements <br />Name of Ditch WDID Irrigated Acres Project Entitlement <br /> (acre-feet) <br />Farrell Ditch 310524 213 519 <br />McBride Ditch 310553 71 173 <br />Bennett-Myers Ditch 310528 160 390 <br />Myers-Asher Ditch 310518 137 334 <br />Wommer Ditch 310513 292 711 <br />Catlin Ditch 310545 35 85 <br />Bear Creek and Pine River 310514 517 1,259 <br />Sullivan Ditch 310668 418 1,018 <br />Los Pinos Ditch 310512 800 1,948 <br />Thompson Epperson Ditch 310511 2,392 5,824 <br />Schroder Ditch 310523 3,577 8,710 <br />Citizen Ditch 310515 120 292 <br />Bean Ditch 310510 155 377 <br />Dunham Ditch 310550 47 114 <br />King Ditch 310519 8,556 20,834 <br />Higbee Ditch 310516 35 85 <br />Island Ditch 310527 20 49 <br />Robert Morrison Ditch 310547 6,947 16,916 <br />Spring Creek (Non-Indian) 310665 18,216 44,356 <br />Dr. Morrison (Non-Indian) 310664 71 173 <br />Total 42,779 104,167 <br />The majority of the irrigation return flows from the Pine River ditches accrue to the Pine River <br />where they are available for re-diversion by downstream ditches. The exceptions are the King <br />Ditch (WDID 310519) and the Robert Morrison Ditch (WDID 310547) which deliver a portion <br />of their supplies into the headwaters of Salt Creek, a tributary of the Florida River in Water <br />District 30. Also, a portion of the return flow from the Spring Creek Ditch (WDID <br />310509/310665) accrues to Sambrito Creek, which flows into Navajo Reservoir near the New <br />Mexico state line. The locations of return flows for all of the ditches were determined from <br />inspection of the State's irrigated acreage mapping in conjunction with USGS topographic <br />maps. <br />2.8 Navajo Reservoir and New Mexico Water Right Operations <br />Navajo Reservoir was constructed by the USBR in the late 1950's as a principal storage <br />component of the Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP). The reservoir is operated to store <br />surplus water available during the spring runoff months in the San Juan, Piedra, Navajo and <br />Pine (Los Pinos) rivers in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. The stored <br />water is subsequently released during the mid to late summer months to provide supplemental <br />and full service irrigation water supplies and supplemental municipal and industrial uses on the <br />lower reaches of the San Juan River in New Mexico. <br />San Juan & Dolores River Basin Information 2-21 <br />