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- 2 - <br />Floodwater <br />Retarding <br />Project County Acres Dams <br />Vineland Pueblo 11,110 4 <br />Home Supply* <br />Larimer and Weld <br />43,140 <br />1** <br />Pine River* <br />La Plata & Archuleta <br />57,730 <br />2 <br />Louden* <br />Larimer <br />113,280 <br />0 <br />The projects involve improvements to irrigation systems that serve <br />the irrigated areas. <br />Irrigation storage only. <br />I <br />The completion of these projects involve the construction of 76 <br />floodwater retarding dams and carrying out needed land treatment measures <br />on watershed lands. The Ramah dam on the Big Sandy Creek project is a <br />multipurpose structure. It has 5,000 acre feet of capacity for flood <br />prevention and 500 acre feet for fish and wildlife. The Federal cost in <br />constructing flood prevention works of improvement on these projects is <br />approximately $5,000,000 and the sponsoring organizations together with <br />farmers and ranchers have contributed in excess of an equivalent amount <br />toward costs incurred in carrying out the projects. <br />5. Work plan development is about 70 percent complete on the West Paradox <br />watershed consisting of 38,000 acres in Montrose County, Colorado and <br />22,000 acres in San Juan County, Utah. This project involves land <br />treatment on watershed land and increasing the capacity of the Buckeye <br />Reservoir in the amount of 2,000 acre feet for irrigation and 400 acre <br />feet for fish and wildlife. <br />6. Preliminary investigations are in progress on the following: <br />Floodwater <br />Project <br />County <br />Acres <br />Retarding Dams <br />Crooked Arroyo <br />Otero <br />69,000 <br />5 <br />Box Elder Creek <br />Larimer <br />190,000 <br />6 <br />Eaton <br />Weld <br />22,000 <br />1 <br />Plum Creek <br />Douglas <br />222,000 <br />9 <br />Canon Watersheds <br />Fremont <br />16,000 <br />2-3 <br />