9313 ‎(2)‎

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9313
• Author: Burdick, B. D., J. Flair, M. Lloyd and B. Scheer.
• Title: Native and Nonnative Fish Use of Two Gravel-Pit Ponds Connected to the Upper Colorado River at 29-5/8 Road Near Grand Junction, Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1997.
• USFW - Doc Type: Project number CAP-6-GP,
• Copyright Material: NO

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farm land. A total depletion of about 10,300 acre-feet annually would result
from the construction and operation of this unit.
Storage regulation would be provided by Crystal Ranch Reservoir located on the
Yellowstone River. The existing Big Sand Wash Reservoir would be enlarged to
capture instream flows from the re-regulation of Crystal Ranch Reservoir.
Irrigation supplies would be released from Crystal Ranch Reservoir to the
stream channel and re-diverted for distribution through existing canal systems
and Big Sand Wash Feeder Pipeline.
The project plan calls for storage of 3,000 acre-feet of municipal and
industrial water in the enlarged Big Sand Wash Reservoir for the City of
Roosevelt. Water for the City of Roosevelt would be made available by
exchanging 3,000 acre-feet of municipal and industrial water in Big Sand Wash
Reservoir with 3,000 acre-feet of irrigation water stored in the secondary
space in Crystal Ranch Reservoir. The municipal and industrial water exchange
to Crystal Ranch Reservoir would be delivered to Brown's Draw Reservoir via
the Yellowstone Feeder Canal. Uinta River water now diverted to Brown's Draw
would be exchanged for the water provided through the Yellowstone-Feeder Canal
from Crystal Ranch Reservoir.
Part of the storage in Crystal Ranch Reservoir would replace the irrigation
supply presently obtained from 10 high mountain lakes in the High Uintas
Wilderness.
The Upalco Unit of the Uinta Basin Replacement Projects is still in planning
stages and will require individual section 7 compliance at a later date. The
Central Utah Water Conservancy District is the lead agency and is responsible
for-all environmental compliance, including section 7 consultation.
The Uintah Unit Replacement Project would develop flows of the Uinta and
Whiterocks Rivers, with minor contributions from other small streams for
supplemental irrigation of Indian and secondary lands. Project water would be
available from storage regulation of high flows of the Uinta River, from
savings of seepage losses through rehabilitation of existing canals, and from
retiring marginal farm land. An average of 15,000 acre-feet of water would be
depleted annually from the Duchesne River by this project.
Storage regulation would be provided in the Lower Uintah Reservoir on the
Uinta River. Irrigation supplies would be released from Lower Uintah
Reservoir to the stream channel and re-diverted for distribution through