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<br />Dolores Water Conservancy District <br />P.o. Box 1150 <br />Cortez. Colorado 81321 <br />Ph. 970-565-7562 <br /> <br />WET PACK FEASIBILITY STUDY <br />SCOPE OF WORK <br /> <br />INTRODUCTION <br />The Dolores Water Conservancy District (District) in cooperation with the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board (CWCB) will conduct a feasibility study of alternatives for improving <br />water supplies in Dolores and Montezuma Counties, As a minimum, the study will <br />identify the water related needs of the planning area for a suitable planning horizon and <br />identify alternative structural and non-structural means of meeting those needs through an <br />open planning process, A selected alternative will be identified and evaluated for eventual <br />implementation, The study is referred to as WET PACK - Water for Everyone <br />Tomorrow PACKage, <br /> <br />PLANNING AREA <br />The planning area consists of the western portions of Dolores and Montezuma counties in <br />southwest Colorado, It includes all lands communities, facilities, fishery and recreational <br />resources currently receiving water supplies from the Dolores Project as well as those <br />lands, communities, facilities, fishery and recreational resources, which might benefit from <br />increased supplies of water in the future. Consideration will also be given to municipal <br />water demands in San Juan County, Utah, ' <br /> <br />DESCRIPTION OF THE DISTRICT <br />The District operates the Dolores Project and is the entity responsible for repayment of <br />reimbursable project costs to the federal government The Project was constructed by the <br />Bureau of Reclamation in the 1980's. McPhee Reservoir is the central facility of the <br />Dolores Project which provides water to: (1) full service non~Indian irrigators northwest <br />of McPhee; (2) supplemental water to irrigators in the Montezuma Valley Irrigation <br />Company; (3) full service irrigation water to the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe; (4) <br />municipal and industrial water to the towns and cities in the project area; and (5) a cold <br />water fishery in the Dolores River below McPhee Dam. The project serves approximately <br />27,000 acres of full service irrigation, 35,000 acres of supplemental service irrigation, <br />7,500 acres of Ute Mountain Ute Indian irrigation, and about 10,000 people, <br /> <br />STUDY OBJECTIVE <br />The Dolores Project was conceived, planned, and designed during the leading edge of the <br />realities of the "new west". This is evident because two non-traditional uses of water were <br />designed into the project to settle the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe's Winters Doctrine claims <br />on the Mancos River and to create a cold water fishery below McPhee Dam. The original <br />Dolores Project was successful on all counts but was unable to meet all of the demands for <br /> <br />P.ge 1 ]2130/98 F;uohnlmemo\WETPACK 8COPE OF WORK-do, <br /> <br />Appendix A to Loan Contract C150003 <br />