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n. MEADOWS RESERVOIR is located at an offstream site about 15 <br />miles northwest of Farmington, New Mexico. The dam is a rolled-earth <br />structure and the reservoir will have a...total capacity of 17,450 <br />acre -feet of which 13,750 acre -feet will be active capacity. The <br />reservoir is located in portions of Sections 25, 26, 27, 34, 35 and <br />36 of Township .31 North, Range 14 West, N.M.P.M.. The initial point <br />of survey of the high water line of the reservoir is located at a <br />point from whence the Southwest corner of Section 26, Township 31 <br />North, Range 14 West, N.M.P.M.,,bears South 25°18T West, a distance <br />of 1,300 feet. The axis extends South 45050' West, from a point <br />on the right abutment at Station 0 /00 from Whence the Southwest corner <br />of Section 26, Township 31 North, Range 14 West, N.M.P.M., bears <br />South 34 °321 West, a distanoe of 2,130 feet. The dam is 2,200 feet <br />long and 30 feet wide at the .crest. The course of supply for the <br />reservoir is.-the Animas River through.the Animas Diversion Canal as a <br />conduit to the La Plata River and subsequent diversion at Meadows <br />Diversion Dam in New Mexico. The reservoir also serves as a regulation <br />reservoir for water released drom the Howardsville Reservoir. <br />o. MEADOWS CANAL distributes releases from Meadows Reservoir <br />and extends ll.1.miles southwest from the reservoir, having an initial <br />capacity of 90 c.f.s. and.a terminal capacity of 20, c.f.s. About <br />29 laterals.and turnouts with buklt -in measuring devices will be <br />constructed. The diversion from Meadows Dam abd Reservoir is located <br />at a point from whence the southwest corner of Section 26, Township <br />31 Borth, Range 14 West, N.M.P.M., bears South 300221 Test, a distance <br />of 530.feet. The source of water in this canal. is Meadows Reservoir, <br />which includes water from the Animas River which has been carried to <br />the La Plata-River by the Animas Diversion Canal. <br />3. APPROPRIATION DATE. The date of the initiation of the <br />original appropriation was December 31, 1910, which was the date <br />survey work was commenced on the Animas -La Plata Project. Work on <br />9 1 10 <br />