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Refined Alternative 4 <br />Refined Alternative 4 includes both structural and non - structural elements designed to achieve the <br />fundamental purpose of securing the Colorado Ute Tribes an assured water supply in satisfaction of their <br />water rights as determined by the 1986 Settlement Agreement and the 1988 Settlement Act and by <br />providing for identified M &I water needs in the project area. Refined Alternative 4 includes measures to <br />mitigate fish and wildlife, wetlands, and cultural resource impacts. <br />The structural component of Refined Alternative 4 would include an off - stream storage reservoir at <br />Ridges Basin with an active capacity of approximately 90,000 of (approximately 120,000 of total <br />capacity), a pumping plant with a pumping capacity of up to 280 cubic feet per second (cfs); a reservoir <br />inlet conduit (all designed to pump and store water from the Animas River); and the NNMP to transport <br />treated municipal water to the Shiprock area, New Mexico. Consumptive use of water from the structural <br />portion of the project would be restricted to M &I uses only and would be allocated as shown in Table <br />ES -1. <br />Under this allocation, the Colorado Ute Tribes would still be approximately 13,000 of short of the total <br />quantity of depletion recognized in the Settlement Agreement. Therefore, the non - structural component <br />of the project would establish a $40 million water acquisition fund which the Colorado Ute Tribes could <br />use on a discretionary basis to purchase land to satisfy non - structural water rights (approximately 13,000 <br />afy). To provide flexibility in the use of the fund, authorization from the US Department of Interior to <br />the Colorado Ute Tribes would allow some or all of the funds to be redirected for on -farm development, <br />water delivery infrastructure, or for water- related economic development activities. <br />The primary source of the water for the structural portion of Refined Alternative 4 is the Animas River. <br />The water supply for the non - structural component would include the Pine, Florida, Animas, La Plata, <br />Mancos and Dolores Rivers and McElmo Creek. The supply could be developed from existing uses <br />within each basin, with the associated historic shortages, so that no additional water would be needed to <br />meet the demands of the non - structural components. <br />For Refined Alternative 4, it is estimated that the purchase of about 10,300 acres of irrigated land, <br />distributed in four river basins, could be necessary to obtain the 13,000 afy of depletion described as part <br />of the water acquisition fund. The acreage could be distributed among the four basins approximately in <br />this manner: <br />❑ Pine River Basin - Purchase 2,300 acres of land and leave the water on the land. <br />❑ La Plata River Basin - Purchase 2,300 acres of land and leave the water on the land. <br />❑ Animas/Florida River Basins - Purchase 2,300 acres of land and leave the water on the land. <br />❑ Mancos River Basin - Purchase 3,300 acres of land and leave water on the land. <br />Refined Alternative 6 <br />Refined Alternative 6 proposes that water rights under the Settlement Act be obtained through <br />(1) augmentation and the coordinated operation of existing federal projects in the area proximal to the <br />Colorado Ute Tribal reservations; and (2) purchase of water rights on irrigated agricultural lands; or (3) a <br />combination of both. Other elements of Refined Alternative 6 include the NNMP and measures to avoid <br />impacting wetlands as a result of purchases of water and transferring it to M &I use. Refined Alternative <br />6 has been modified to the equivalency of the depletion amounts in Refined Alternative 4 in order to <br />ES -7 <br />
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