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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE BUREAU OF SPORT FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE POST OFFICE BOX 1306 ALBUQUERQUE. NEW MEXICO 87103 May 10, 1968 Memorandum To: Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation, Region 7, Denver, Colorado 80225 From: Acting Regional Di rector Subject: Small Reclamation Project, The Water Supply and Storage Company, Long Draw Reservoir. Larimer County, Colorado-- Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wi Idl ife report This memorandum is our Bureau's report on the potential enlarge- ment of Lon9 Draw Reservoir on La Poudre Pass Creek in Larimer County, Colorado. It is provided under the'authority of and in accordance with the Fish and Wi Idlife Coordination Act (48 Stat. 401, as amended; 16 U.S,C. 661 et seq.). .:,~ . Fish and wildlife aspects of the project have been planned co- operatively with The Water Supply and Storage Company through its engineering consultants, Wright-McLaughlin Engineers, the Colorado Department of Game, Fish and Parks, and the Forest Service. Con- currence in the report by the Colorado Game, Fish and Parks Com- mission is indicated by the enclosed copy of a letter dated April 9. 1968, signed by Colorado Department Director Harry R. Woodward. The Water Supply and Storage Company of Fort Collins, Colorado, is planning the project under the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956, as amended. . The primary purpose of the project is to provide a more reliable supply of irrigation water. for the land served by the Company. This report summarizes the effects of the project on fish and wildlife, discusses the measures to be in- corporated to make fish and wildlife conservation a project purpose, and provides an estimate of benefits attributable to those meas u res. The Water Supply and Storage Company was organized to distribute water to about 37,425 acres of irrigated land in the vicinity of