PROJ00414

• Contract/PO #: C153326
• Contractor Name: Fruitland Mesa Water Conservancy District
• Contract Type: Grant
• Water District: 0
• County: Montrose
• Bill Number: XB 99-999
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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FRUITLAND MESA PROJECT
FEASIBILITY REPORT

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Introduction

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This report of the Fruitland Mesa Project has been prepared by PRC

Engineering Consultants, Inc. (PRC/ECI), for the Colorado Water

Conservation Board and the Fruitland Mesa Conservancy District. The

report contains the results of study made by PRC/ECI for assessing the

amount of surface water supplies available for storage in the Gould

Reservoir and its optimized use to meet irrigation demands of the

project service area.

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The Fruitland Mesa Project was earlier authorized as a partici-
pating project of the Colorado River Storage Project by the Act of
September 2, 1964. The project was studied to feasibility level by
the erstwhile U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, now known as the Water and
Power Resources Service (W.P.R.S.), in the year 1962. The feasibility
study was later modified by W.P.R.S., who prepared a Definite Plan
Report for the Fruitland Mesa Project in August 1977. However, the
project was never funded and is presently reported to be a target for
deauthorization.

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The project investigated by W.P.R.S. called for providing a

reservoir on the Soap Creek and making trans basin diversions from the

Soap Creek and the Curecanti Creek to the Crystal Creek for subsequent

diversion for irrigation to the Fruitland Mesa Project service area.

The present study does not consider any transbasin diversion to the

Crystal Creek; instead, it is concentrated on making a more beneficial

use of the Gould Reservior by optimizing the available surface water

resources within the Crystal Valley and the Onion Valley. An effort

has thus been made to limit the project to a size that could easily be

funded locally and also could eventually become a part of the main

project as conceived by W.P.R.S. for the overall development of water

resources of the Soap Creek, Currecanti Creek, and the Crystal Creek

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