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. CHAPTER I GENERAL DISCUSSIONS Municipal water supplies The small communities in the project area obtain domestic water from nearby streams, springs, and wells. In general their supplies are of sat- isfactory quantity and quality for present conditions and population, utilities and services Electric power is supplied to communities in the general vicinity of the project by the Yampa Valley, White River. and Moon Lake Electric Asso- ciations, These associations presently generate power to meet some of their requirements and also obtain power from the Bureau of Reclamation's Colorado-Big Thompson project. In the near future the Yampa Valley and White River Associations are expected to be served from the Colorado-ute Electric Association which is a generation and transmission cooperative. The Colorado-Ute Association is presently constructing a 150.000-kilowatt steam-electric plant at Hayden, Colo., which will be interconnected with the power system of the Colorado Biver Storage project at the project's Hayden substation. Power from the. storage project also will be provided to the Moon Lake Association through interconnections at the Vernal and Rangely substations. Telephone service is available at all communities and most of the . farms and ranches in the area, Need for Further Develo~ment Agricultural development in the Juniper project area can be signif- icantly expanded only with development of additional irrigation water from the Yampa River through storage regulation and distribution facilities such as would be provided by the Juniper.project. Dry farming cannot be practiced successfully because of the limited rainfall during the growing season, and without storage regulation the streamflows in late summer are too erratic and too..low for substantial new irrigation developments. . 10