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<br />001400 <br /> <br />-2-- <br /> <br />I - WESTERN COWRAOOI STATUS <br /> <br />irrigable land, of which 844,494 acres were reported as irrigated in the sea- <br />son of 1939. The said irrigated lands consisted of 702,279 acres of harvest- <br />ed crop land; 10,292 acres of crop failure; and 131.923 acres of irrigated <br />pasture. <br /> <br />4. Records of Di strict Water Commissioners show a total of 887.476 acres <br />of lend irrigated in Western Colorado in the season of 1939. end approxi- <br />mately the same area in other recent years. <br /> <br />5. Lend Classification Surveys conduoted qy the U. S. Bureau of Reclama- <br />ticn during the 1930 decade oovered 767.060 acres of irrigated land. of which <br />550.920 acres were devoted to cultivated crops, and 216.140 acres to meadows <br />or native h~ crops; and covered 706,840 acres of arable lands awaiting re- <br />clamation by irrigation, of which 65.600 aores in Class 1, and 641.240 acres <br />in Class 2. - lands in other classifications being herein disregarded. <br /> <br />6. Whatever may be the exact extent of the areas presently irrigated and <br />awaiting reclamation in Western Colorado. it is the expectation of the state <br />and its citizens thatl <br /> <br />(1) Existing irrigation shall continue in the future; <br /> <br />(2) Supplemental and additional water supplies for lends heretofore <br />inadequately irrigated will be provided, by means of reservoirs, to the <br />extent that such reservoirs can 1:a devised of engineering and economic feas- <br />ibility; and, , <br /> <br />(3) Arable lands will be reclaimed, to the extent that feasible pro. <br />jects can be devised for that purpose, including reservoirs for flood con- <br />trol. streamflow regulation, water conservation, power generation, and re- <br />lated beneficial purposes and combinations thereof. <br /> <br />I - WESTERN COIDRAOOI PROGRESS <br /> <br />7. During reoent years the following reservoirs have been constructed <br />in Western Coloradol <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />(a) Taylor Park Reservoir, on Taylor River, oonstructed by the U. <br />S. Bureau of Reclamation tc provide supplemental water supplies <br />for the Uncompahgre Project; - oonsisting of an earth fill. <br />rook face dam (with concrete spillway). rnaximUl!l height 204 feet;. <br />crest length 613 feet. volume 1,106,796 cubic yards; creating <br />a reservoir of capacity 106.230 aore-feet. completed in 1937, <br />at a oost of $1.325.000. <br /> <br />(b) Fruit Growers Reservoir, looated on a tributary of the North <br />Fork Gunnison River. oonstructed by U. S. Reclamation Bureau <br />to replace the former Austin Dam; - consisting of an earth and <br />rock fill dam of maximum height 55 feet, crest length 1.520 <br />feet. volume 131.433 cubic yards; creating a reservoir of <br />