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<br />join those from Milly K. Goodwin Lake in the tunnel. <br /> <br />The Black Mesa Tunnel, which is 8.4 miles long, and I mentioned before <br />that it would have a diameter of 7 1/2 feet and a capacity of 275 cubic <br />feet per second. <br /> <br />This is a slide of Curecanti Creek.. We're looking north, and Curecanti I <br />Creek runs~down through the center of the picture. This is the site of <br />the diversion dam and shaft that provides additiDnal flows to the Black <br />Mesa Conduit. The diversion dam would stretch approximately 250 feet <br />across the stream at a height of. about 15 feet, just about where the <br />arrow is on the picture there. <br /> <br />The Fruitland Canal would deliver water for 18.4 miles to project lands. <br />Besides minor 'delivery ppints to laterals and fields, there would pe <br />six major turnouts from the canal. Additional turnouts would be pro- <br />vided as needed for project operation. The statistics for the Fruitland <br />Canal are illustrated on this slide. <br /> <br />As an initial improvement to the ppoject area, two siphons on Gould Canal <br />were replaced in 1973. This is Gould Siphon No. 2 with the outlet and <br />a portion of Gould Canal in the foreground., The inlet is on the hill <br />opposite. <br /> <br />The project would serve 18,250 acres of land, 11,940 of which would be <br />receiving. water for the first time. <br /> <br />As a fishery enhancement measure, a minimum pool of 500 acre-feet would <br />be guaranteed in Gould Reservoir. The dam you can see in the lower <br />right-hand corner. Necessary flows to maintain the 500 acre-feet would <br />be provided through the existing Gould Feeder Canal from a turnout on <br />Fruitland Canal. Fisherman use, is expected to increase from the present <br />use of about 3,000 to a minimum of about 7,000 fisherman-days annually. <br />I might point out that I flew over this reservoir about tWo weeks ago, <br />and at that time it was dry. Also, the existing Fruitland Canal' was <br />dry. I understand that no water was available for the canal after the <br />first part of July, a very, very dry year at Fruitland Mesa. <br /> <br />" <br />This ,shows a privately developed stock pond on Upper Fruitland Mesa, and <br />allows greater cattle use of .the area by allowing them to concentrate in <br />the areas covered by grazing permits. This area here would become part <br />of the irrigated farm land under project operation, but stock watering <br />areas would be developed in the Black Ridge area from stock water made <br />available from the project supply. The Bureau of Land Management-would <br />provide itsioWDlcarriage system and storage facilities for this annual I <br />supply of 15 acre-feet. Fifteen acre-feet would also be made available <br />to the National Park Service for its use at the North Rim of the Black <br />Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument. <br /> <br />A general concept has been developed by the Bureau of Reclamation for <br />compensation for any loss of big game habitat. This pilian cannot be <br />finalized until review and acceptance by local, state and federal <br />interests. The concept consists of access control in Soap Park, burying <br />the Black Mesa Conduit in pipe, maintaining public access on Fruitland <br /> <br />-6- <br />