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Navajo Unit, CRSP <br />Location: San Juan River <br />Completed: 1963 <br />Features: Navajo Dam and Reservoir <br />Consultation History: Formal Section 7 consultation on <br />the operation of Navajo Dam was requested on July 30, <br />1991. It was also requested that the consultation <br />period for Navajo operations be extended while the <br />research under the San Juan River Recovery Program is <br />conducted. Once the research is completed, then the <br />Section 7 consultation for Navajo Dam operations be <br />concluded with issuance of a biological opinion. <br />Purposes: Irrigation <br />* Navajo Indian Irrigation <br />Project - <br />110,630 acres <br />Municipal and Industrial <br />* Water service contracts: <br />Expires <br />- Bloomfield Refining <br />1993 <br />- Earl Hickam <br />1994 <br />- MK- Ferguson <br />1995 <br />- North Heights Bloomfield <br />Water <br />and Sanitation Assoc. 1997 <br />- BPOE Lodge No. 1747 <br />1997 <br />- San Juan Water Haulers <br />1997 <br />- Douglas Lee <br />1997 <br />- Public Service Company of <br />New Mexico <br />2005 <br />- Sunterra Gas Processing <br />2028 <br />Flood Control <br />* reduce snowmelt flooding <br />Power <br />* non - Federal powerplant installed 1989 <br />under FERC licensing authority <br />Recreation and Fish and Wildlife <br />* reservoir -based facilities managed by <br />States of New Mexico and Colorado <br />* river -based facilities managed by <br />State of New Mexico <br />* waterfowl developments in Colorado and <br />New Mexico <br />Water rights - The United States holds a permit for <br />1,118,800 acre -feet in Navajo Reservoir. The stated uses are <br />irrigation, industrial, municipal, domestic, mining, power, and <br />.k% <br />