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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />CRAnER II <br /> <br />PLAN OF DEVELOPMENT <br /> <br />32,000 acre-feet annually from Beaver and Naturita Creeks. About 7,100 <br />acre-feet of this water would be transferred to lands above project canals <br />and claimed as project water since it would be replaced to lower lands <br />from project works. Average annual data on both nonproject and project <br />reservoirs are shown in the table on the following page. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br /> <br />The Gurley Canal would operate in coordination with <br />project facilities. <br /> <br />In some years the project could not fully meet the water require- <br />ments for irrigation and for the Radium fish and wildlife area, Short- <br />ages would average only about 4.6 percent of the requirements. The re- <br />quirements for municipal and industrial water and for the San Miguel <br />River fishery would be fully satisfied. <br /> <br />Stream Depletion <br /> <br />The San Miguel project would deplete the flow of the Colorado River <br />by an estimated average of 85,000 acre-feet annually, including 6,300 <br />acre-feet from reservoir evaporation, 52,600 acre-feet from irrigation, <br />and 26,100 acre-feet from municipal and industrial use. This depletion <br />would be within the apportionment of water made to Colorado by the Upper <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />19 <br />