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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />pool. A surcharge pool with a capacity of 636,000 acre-feet will <br />be provided. Of the total controlled capacity (973,185 acre- <br />feet), 475,000 acre-feet are exclusively for flood control, <br />75,000 acre-feet for joint flood control and irrigation, 373,025 <br />acre-feet for irrigation, and 50,160 acre-feet for inactive and <br />dead capacity. Except for direct deliveries to the Fort Morgan <br />Canal, irrigation water from the reservoir will be delivered via <br />the South Platte River to the headgates of existing irrigation <br />systems. No irrigation distribution systems will be constructed. <br /> <br />Supplemental irrigation water will be supplied to irrigable <br />lands of the Lower South Platte Water Conservancy District <br />(consisting of 166,370 acres) and the Central Colorado Water <br />Conservancy District (consisting of about 120,700 acres). The <br />total water supply available for the project service areas will <br />average 157,500 acre-feet annually, of which 102,000 acre-feet <br />will be obtained from regulation of surplus steamflow, 31,000 <br />acre-feet from direct-flow rights associated with existing <br />irrigated lands to be inundated by Narrows Dam and Reservoir, and <br />24,500 acre-feet of divertible return flows. Of this total water <br />supply, 133,000 acre-feet are salable project water at the outlet <br />works of Narrows Dam and Reservoir and does not include the <br />24,500 acre-feet of divertible return flows. In its most recent <br />evaluation (December, 1981), the Bureau of Reclamation has <br />allocated 108,000 acre-feet to irrigation use and 25,000 <br />acre-feet to municipal and industrial use. <br /> <br />-3- <br />