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<br />1010 <br /> <br />I wany to ,thank Mr. Chalmers and Mr. <br />McCrimmons for being here and we would be <br />pleased to have representatives of your office <br />present at any of our meetings. <br /> <br />The next item on the agenda today is the I <br />report of the Animas-La Plata Project and the ' <br />Florida Project and I have been told that Mr <br />Crabtree of the Bureau of Reclamation will <br />make that report.u <br /> <br />MR. CRABTREE: <br /> <br />UThere are five projects in this Basin <br />that we are investigating at the present, or <br />will be very shortly and since there are people <br />here from Cortez and San Miguel, with permission <br />of the Board, I will speak on all five of them <br />very shortly. <br /> <br />One is our O'Neal Park Project on which we <br />reported unfavorably. Another is the Dulce <br />Project, about half the land is in Colorado and <br />half in New Mexico. We _ have; done nothing with' <br />that project and we know very little about it. <br />There is the Pine River Project Extension, <br />with some lands having a full water supply <br />from Vallecito Reservoir. The extension lands <br />are the lands we propose to irrigate at some <br />time. Another is the Florida Project. The <br />presently irrigated lands have only a partial <br />water supply and some new lands will be saved. <br />The Animas-La Plata Project, the Dolores <br />Project, and the San Miguel Project are also <br />being investigated. <br /> <br />The field studies covered in the draft <br />of the status report of the Pine River Project <br />Extension which was recently completed by the <br />Durango office, indicate the project is not <br />economically feasible. The report is now being <br />processed in our Regional Office. <br /> <br />The Florida Project contemplates a storage <br />reservoir on the Florida River. The new loca- <br />tion of the damsite is approximately one quarter I <br />of a mile downstream from the old Lemon damsite. <br />Surface geological examination of the site is <br />favorable and core drilling to determine sub- <br />surface geological conditions was started on <br />July 11th. A diversion dam would be construct- <br />ed at the present heading of the Florida Farmers <br />Ditch. The latter ditch would be enlarged from <br />its heading to the crossing of the Florida <br />Canal. From that point a portion of the Florida <br />Canal would probably have to be enlarged to <br />