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<br />--O[l()1:'~~~' <br /> <br />37 <br /> <br />('cpt-able quality, but a substantial portion of it is of excel1('nt quality. <br />By selective pumping and controlled mixing, the desired quality of the <br />compositp Hows would bn {>usily mailltuilwd. Stage development of the <br />\~clls is cOlltemplutl'd under n .~('quenl'e; ,..,hieh would yermit ob5oern1- <br />HOIl llnd (lslubhshrnent of nqmfer conditIOns, Iind ndJllstment of well <br />spucing's Hnd capacities to lH.'commodate vuriations encountered, and <br />to pn'\"ent adw'lfse efft'ctR on irrigat{'d bnds in the nrea. This latter <br />(,ollsiueration precludes the tapping of artesiun nquifers llud limits the <br />{'Xl('llt of Willer slllvuge nrell's. <br />To the t'xtellt prlleticul. the w{'lIs would be located so as tD pennit <br />pumping' dir('('tly into {'OIln'yull('c channels. \\11cre this is impructical, <br />smull lllterlll cunnI;; would collect tht, dischl~rg{'s of severnl wplls ilnd <br />deli,'er till' combined flows to t'on"('YlUlee dlHllllelS. A main cOllveyunce <br />chullnd ahout 44 miles long w0I1I(1 deliver the collected flows to the <br />Rio Grundt', Adt'quute IH'('('SS roads and channd crossings ,,,'ouJd be <br />providf'd to IWfmit f'fIicient ncc('ss to pnmping installations and to <br />electric transmission fuciliti(.s. It is l'olltf'mpluted that electric power <br />for pumping would be ohtailwd from I;'cderal wutpr power develop- <br />Ilwnts in Colorado und transmitted to the slllv!lge llrcu by wheeling <br />ugn'clllent with tlw Public Ser\"ice Co. of Colorndo. Stnge construc- <br />tion of the powcr tnmsmission syst.em in the arCll is ('ont('lUpllltt~d. <br />TIH' pllln cont.emplutps development of the ~lishak Luke..., and <br />AluInOSll 1\utiollul \Vildlifc rdugcs ill uccordllllce with the reeom- <br />lIle!Hlllt.ioIlS of the BlIrellu of Sport Fisheries und "~ildlife ill its np- <br />pendl.d report. The wllter sl1h'ugo proposal would hu,'c an udverse <br />effect on the wildlife cover and the naturnI waterfowl hnuitllt within <br />the di,'ision arpa. The ureu is l'onsid('red to be all important wnter- <br />fowl hnbitat of the cent.ral flyway, ~lisht~k Lukes i\ational Refuge, <br />n'cOlllllwnded by the Burellu of Sport Fisheries lUlll \Vildlife llS II <br />Illitigl\tion measurt. ill llccordlln('(' with the plnn present.ed in thut <br />Bureau's report, would be It division ('OSt. It iT1\'oh'f's t.he Ilcquisition <br />of 8,000 ueres of Innds, including 1,640 neres of Stllte 1l1nds adjucent <br />to the lIorthw('st edge of the wutt'r snln1ge urell, ilnd construction of <br />lH'cpssury fencing. IlC('('ss ronds, dikes, wllter structures, wells, llnd a <br />rdugt~ hClulqullrtPI"S. Opt'Tlltioll und lHuint('nallce of the )'lishnk Lakes <br />i\ ationul \Yildlife Hl'fugc, howen'l'. would be nt Fl'deml expense under <br />the provisions of the ~ligmtory Bird Consl'l'nltion Act- of 1929, as <br />llmelllled. <br />Den'lopuH'nt of tlw proposed Alamosu Xntional \Vildlife Refuge, <br />consisting of some 9.323 t1l:r('s of I'olid~, wt'tlunds. nnd feN) nrCIl-.'i nlong <br />the Hio Grllntll' ut tlil' lowN ('nd of thl' division nren. ubo is rccom- <br />lI\('nded hy tilt, Bureau of Sport Fislwrit's Hnt! \\Tildlift', hnt not tIS a <br />di,'ision cost. About 5.300 uCl'I'-ff'pt of the wllter salvaged by the <br />progn\lll would he din'rtt'd Hlllluully to muintaill the' potld~, wetlands, <br />and fred {'fOp:' ill thp refug'e. thus reducing t'stimated HIInunl delin'ries <br />of salvaged water to the Rio Grandt' from 101,700 Hcre-feet to 96,400 <br />acre-feet. <br />The phm nbo proddes for Ilomiuul u~(' of slllvuged water to provide <br />water supplies for fish hlltclwrit.s which are being considered in the <br />Closed Basin, It is contemplated that measures would also be taken <br />to !l('rnte the wuter in the COll"{',nUlCe channels und to place cobble- <br />stotH's or p-an'l on the bottom in sell'ctrd sl'ctions of the channel to <br />improve fi::;h hllbitllt. <br />