BOARD01982

• Board Meeting Date: 7/30/1976
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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of the major contract for Ridgway in September of 1977.

This completes our brief review of the. Dallas Creek project. I would
like now to switch to Fruitland Mesa.

The Fruitland Mesa project was originally authorized in September of
1964 as a participating project under the Colorado River Storage Act
of April 11, 1956. Advance planning stages have been completed, and
the definite plan report was issued in June Df 1967. This definite plan
report is currently being revised as the result of some slight changes
that have been made in the project plan. Water allocations have been
made and adjustments have been executed in the plan to provide efficient
application of water on the current project lands. The draft environ-
mental statement is in the final stages of preparation and will soon be
rel~ased to thepublic'd Afpublicbheari~g oRtheddraft will be held in the
project area atter the ra t-has een d1Stribute .

The Fruitland Mesa project will develop water from three streams to
provide irrigation to 18,250 acres of land in five areas. SDap Park
Dam will be constructed at the lower end of Big Soap Park to form Milly
K.Goodwin Lake. This is the major storage facility for the project.
Water stored here would be conveyed by the Black Mesa Conduit to the
Fruitland Canal. The initial reach of the Black Mesa Conduit would be
a pipeline wJith a seven-foot diameter. The water would then pass under
Black Mesa in a seven and a half fDot tunnel and would enter the open
Fruitland Canal. The estimated cost of the project is $79,250,000, and
would have an annual equivalent cost Df $2,969,000, with annual benefits
of $3,480,000, and a benefit-cost ratio of approximately 1.2:1.

This slide indicates the statistics fo~ the reservoir. The 1,225 acre-
feet of inactive storage would preserve a trout fishery in this cold
water reservoir. Some of the other capacities and lengths I might
point out is that the height of the dam is 247 feet; the volume in the
dam embankment would be 3,359,000 cubic yards; crest length would be
approximately 1,150 feet; total capacity of the reservoir is 48,235
acre-feet.

This again is an artist's conception looking in the same direction as
the slide before. This is an artist's conception of Milly K. Goodwin
Lake, and gives some idea of the visual changes that will occur with
construction of the reservoir in Soap Park. A road would be con-
structed across the face of the dam leading to the parking area and
picnic groundslnear the west side of the dam. The buried pipeline
would reach from the bottom of the dam to the inlet of the Black Mesa
Tunnel.

The tunnel inlet is in Little Soap Park on this hillside. This
depression would serve as a disposal area for tunnel spoil. Little
Soap Park would also serve as the site of the Forest Service campground
to be developed by the Bureau of Reclamation in associatiDn with the
project.

The Black Mesa Conduit is described here.
Curecanti Creek would drop water 410 feet

Additional flows from
through an inclined shaft to

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