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. <br />Dolores Project <br />Location: Dolores River (tributary to Colorado River) <br />Completed: 1995 <br />Features: McPhee Dam and Reservoir and Great Cut Dike <br />Great Cut Pumping Plant <br />6 Sprinkler -head Pumping Plants <br />Carriage facilities <br />* 90 miles of canal <br />* 82 miles of laterals <br />McPhee Dam Powerplant - 990 Kw <br />Towaoc Canal Powerplant - 10.5 Mw <br />Consultation History: No Section 7 consultation <br />Purposes: Irrigation <br />* 61,660 acres of full and supplemental <br />service to Indian and non - Indian lands <br />* annual depletion of 80,900 acre -feet on <br />Colorado River (total irrigation and M &I) <br />* 25,000 acre -feet return flows to San <br />Juan River from Dolores River imports <br />(total irrigation and M &I) <br />Municipal and Industrial <br />• City of Cortez <br />• Town of Dove Creek <br />• Ute Mountain Ute Tribe <br />• Rural water <br />Flood Control <br />* reduce snowmelt flooding <br />Power <br />• McPhee Powerplant <br />• Towaoc Canal Powerplant <br />Recreation and Fish and Wildlife <br />* 25,400 acre -feet reserved for <br />downstream fish & wildlife purposes <br />• wetlands development below McPhee Dam <br />• river -based recreation facilities <br />managed by U.S.F.S. and BLM <br />* reservoir -based recreation facilities <br />managed by U.S.F.S. <br />* 1,600 acre -feet reserved for fish and <br />wildlife enhancement <br />* Snowmelt flows managed to benefit <br />white- water boating below McPhee Dam <br />Water Rights: Project water rights owned by the <br />Dolores Water Conservancy District. District has the "permanent <br />