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<br />OOHC7 <br /> <br />-3- <br /> <br />I - ~lESTERN COWRAOO, PROGRESS <br /> <br />capacity 4.584 acre-feet. completed in 1938. at a cost of <br />$213.000. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />(c) g!':ound Hog Re servoir. looated on a tributary of the Dolores Ri- <br />ver, oonstruoted by the Montezuma Valley Public Irrigation Dis- <br />triot. under P.W.A. loan and grant, to provide supplffinental ir- <br />rigation supplies for 33.285 aores of irrigated land in: said <br />distriot; - oonsisting of an earth fill dam of maximum height <br />115 feet and volume 317.500 cubic yards; oreating a reservoir of <br />capacity 21.710 aore-feet. oompleted in 1939. at a oost of <br />~301.407. inc lueting feeder and outlet ditches. <br /> <br />(d) stillw~r No.1 Reservoir. on the Upper Yampa River. construct- <br />ed by the Yampa Reservoirs Publio Irrigation Distriot. under <br />P.W.A. loan and grant. to provide supplemental irrigation sup. <br />plies for about 7.000 acres of irrigated land in said distriot; - <br />consisting of an earth fill dam of maximum height 57 feet and <br />volume 175.000 cubic yards; oreating a reservoir of capacity <br />5.536 acre-feet. completed in 1940. at a cost of 3170.000 in- <br />c luding appurtenant works. <br /> <br />(e) Willi~s Fork Reservoir. on Williams Fork River. constructed by <br />the City and County of Denver for replacement storage purposes. <br />as a part of the Jones Pass Diversion Projeot (for sanitation <br />purposes); - oonsisting of a conorete arch dam of height about <br />70 feet. creating a reservoir of capacity 5.120 acre-feet, oom- <br />pleted in 1939 at a cost of $389.358 under a P.H .A. loan and <br />grant; and inoreased in oapacity to 6.650 aore-feet by the in- <br />stallation of gates on the spillway crest in 1942. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />(f) Valleoito Reservoir, on Pine River. constructed by U. S. Bureau <br />of Reolamation. for flocd control and to provide supplemental <br />and additional supplies for irrigation in the Pine River Valley; _ <br />oonsisting of an earth fill dam of maximum height 143 feet. crest <br />length 4.050 feet. and volume 3.690,000 cu. yds; creating a re- <br />servoir of capacity 129.670 acre-feet. completed in 1941 at a <br />cost of $3.300.000. <br /> <br />, . <br />. , <br />" <br /> <br />(g) Green Mountain Reservoir. on Blue River, constructed by U. S. Bur- <br />eau of Reolamation, for replacement storage and power purposes. <br />as a part of the Colorado-Big Thompson Diversion project for the <br />Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District; - consisting of a <br />rolled earth and gravel fill dam of =imum height 274 feet. <br />crest length 1.060 feet. and volume 4.456.000 oubio yards; creat- <br />ing a reservoir of oapacity 152.050 aore-feet. completed in 1943. <br /> <br />~~ <br />II. <br />i'.. <br /> <br />8. Reservoirs in Western Cclorado under construction or authorized in- <br />c lude, <br /> <br />(a) <br /> <br />Mancos Reservoir. looated on a tributary of the Manoos River. a <br />tributary orthe San Juan River. is under oonstruotion by the <br />