Animas-La Plata Water Rights

for annual use from Animas Mountain Reservoir is 14,640 acre -feet of
water. An..additional 14,640 acre -feet of water is claimed for annual
use from storage in Animas Mountain Reservoir whenever capacity in said
reservoir is available for_ .refilling. The source of all such water
claimed is the Animas River, Junction Creek and Falls Creek. Water
will be taken from all three sources.
4.. The amount of water claimed for initial storage in
Meadows Reservoir is 17,450 acre -feet and the.-amount of water claimed
for annual use from storagQ in Meadows Reservoir is 13,750 acre -feet.
An additional 13,750 acre -fe_et of water is claimed for annual use for
storage in Meadows Reservoir whenever capacity in said reservoir is
available for refilling. The sources of all such water claimed is the
Animas, River.
5. ACRES TO BE IRRIGATED:_ The water claimed herein, together
with the La Plata River and Hay Gulch water claimed for the project
in Water .District No. 33,, which is. carried. in the facilities d6scribed
above, and also project return,_flow water returning to the 7a. Plata
River from upland _irrigation, will provide a full supply of water
for 58,900 acres of land to.be.brought under cultivation of which
44,200 acres are in La Plata and Montezuma Counties in Colorado and
.14,700 acres in San Juan County in New Mexico, and will provide a
supplemental supply of water to 25,600 acres of land now under
cultivation, of which 20,100 acres are in Colorado and 5,500 acres
are in New Mexico,
6. CHARACTER OF USES. The uses of water under the Animas -
La Plata Project for which claim is made will be for irrigation,
domestic, recreation, fish and wildlife, flood control, municipal
and industrial, and other beneficial purposes.
7. STATEMENT OF FILINGS MADE. Preliminary filings for the
Hay Gulch Reservoir, Animas -La Plata Diversion Canal and Teft
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