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Dolores Water Conservancy District <br /> P.O. Box 1150 <br /> Cortez, Colorado 81321 <br /> Ph. 970-565-7562 <br /> W E T PACK FEASIBILITY STUDY <br /> SCOPE OF WORK <br /> ,;E,'.fit <br /> INTRODUCTION <br /> The Dolores Water Conservancy District (District) cave o 'th the Colorado Water <br /> Conservation Board (CWCB) will conduct a fea ' 'l't stu` �'' <br /> ^,, �y d�-.,;�°" lternatives for improving <br /> water supplies in Dolores and Montezuma `hties-;,.As • minimum, the study will <br /> identify the water related needs of the planning area Thr ' itable planning horizon and <br /> identify alternative structural and non-structural means of eeting those needs through an <br /> open planning process. A selected alternate "fit`+ me i, and evaluated for eventual <br /> implementation. The study is referred to • Vti.y PACK — Water for Everyone <br /> Tomorrow PACKage. .f .k,,,' <br /> PLANNING AREA 4 h <br /> The planning area consists of the 'e 1� •• o, of Dolores and Montezuma counties in <br /> southwest Colorado. It includes all lands` ;; unities, facilities, fishery and recreational <br /> resources currently receiving water supplies I om the Dolores Project as well as those <br /> lands, communities, facilities, fishery and recreational resources, which might benefit from <br /> increased supplies of water in the future. Consideration will also be given to municipal <br /> water demands in San Juan County, Utah. <br /> DESCRIPTION OF THE DISTRICT <br /> The District operates the Dolores Project and is the entity responsible for repayment of <br /> reimbursable project costs to the federal government. The Project was constructed by the <br /> Bureau of Reclamation in the 1980's. McPhee Reservoir is the central facility of the <br /> Dolores Project which provides water to: (1) full service non-Indian irrigators northwest <br /> of McPhee; (2) supplemental water to irrigators in the Montezuma Valley Irrigation <br /> Company; (3) full service irrigation water to the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe; (4) <br /> municipal and industrial water to the towns and cities in the project area; and (5) a cold <br /> water fishery in the Dolores River below McPhee Dam. The project serves approximately <br /> 27,000 acres of full service irrigation, 35,000 acres of supplemental service irrigation, <br /> 7,500 acres of Ute Mountain Ute Indian irrigation, and about 10,000 people. <br /> STUDY OBJECTIVE <br /> The Dolores Project was conceived, planned, and designed during the leading edge of the <br /> realities of the "new west". This is evident because two non-traditional uses of water were <br /> designed into the project to settle the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe's Winters Doctrine claims <br /> on the Mancos River and to create a cold water fishery below McPhee Dam. The original <br /> Dolores Project was successful on all counts but was unable to meet all of the demands for <br /> Page 1 12/30/98 F;jjohn\memo\WETPACK SCOPE OF WORK.doc <br /> Appendix A to Loan Contract C150003 <br />