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<br />SUMMARY SHEETS <br /> <br />Trinidad Project, Colorado <br />(Corps of Engineers) <br />Upper Arkansas River Basin <br /> <br />.> <br /> <br />July 1964 <br /> <br />LOCATION <br /> <br />South central Colorado along the Purgatoire River in Las Animas <br />County. The dam and reservoir will be located about 4 miles <br />upstream from the city of Trinidad, The irrigable lands are in <br />the valley and on the uplands north of the valley starting <br />immediately east of the city of Trinidad and extending downstream <br />for approximately 25 miles. <br /> <br />AUTHORIZATION <br /> <br />...-" <br /> <br />The Trinidad Dam and Reservoir was authorized for construction <br />by the Corps of Engineers under Public Law 85-500, 85th Congress, <br />S, 3910, July 3, 1958 as described in H. D. 325, 84th Congress, <br />2d Session, January 1956. Repayment of costs allocated to irri- <br />gation are to be in accordance with Reclamation law, hence the <br />irrigation aspects of the development are the responsibility of <br />the Bureau of Reclamation. <br /> <br />';-" <br /> <br />PLAN <br /> <br />The plan, consisting principally of the Corps of Engineers multiple- <br />purpose dam and reservoir, includes the function of irrigation. The <br />project will store and regulate the water supplies of the existing <br />irrigation systems which have been included in the plan of <br />development, Flood waters, which in the past were stored in <br />Model Reservoir, will be stored by the project and made available <br />to the irrigable lands. 11 The plan does not include any Federal <br />improvements, rehabilitation, modifications, or extensions to the <br />existing irrigation facilities, <br /> <br />. -/." <br /> <br />"..:(.: . <br /> <br />11 Because of sedimentation, Model Reservoir no longer has the <br />capacity to store its share of the flood flows. <br /> <br />ii <br />