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<br />{Jjj4JJ <br />Dolores Project (Continued) <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Project Features <br /> <br />Dams <br />Location <br /> <br />Height (:rt,) <br />Crest length (ft,) <br />Reservoirs (ac.-~t.) <br />Active capacity 211,5QO 4,000 12,000 <br />Inactive capacity 252,500 ~ 4;400 <br />Total capacity 364,0Cl0 ~ 16,400 <br />Surcharp;e storage 36,oco 677 750 <br />11 In addition to McPhee Dam, MCPhee Reservoir would req~e con- <br />struction of Great Cut Dike, an earth structure 62 feet high and 1,9)0 <br />feet long at the crest. <br /> <br />75 <br />2,000 <br /> <br />169 <br />2,350 <br /> <br />l-bmunent <br />Creek I <br />Earth <br />107 <br />5,000 <br />2,700 I <br />2,3~ <br />5,0 <br /> , <br /> <br />Type <br /> <br />Dolores <br />River <br />Earth ':'-.":1/ <br />rock 1" <br />268 <br />1,300 <br /> <br />Cahone <br />Canyon <br />Earth <br /> <br />Ruin <br />Canyon <br />Earth <br /> <br />. <br />In1 tial <br />capacity <br />(sec.-ft, ) <br /> <br />Canals and candui ts <br />Dove Creek Canal <br />South Canal <br />Hovenweep Canal <br />Cahone Canal <br />Great Cut Canal <br />Laterals <br />Drains <br /> <br />1,200 <br />lI,o <br />9:> <br />75 <br />230 <br /> <br />Length <br />(miles) <br /> <br />67,9 <br />10.2 <br />9.0 <br />8,9 <br />10.0 <br />lI,o.9 <br />28.0 <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />Bydrolopy (Dolores River at McPhee Dam s1 te) <br /> <br />Drainage area (sq. mi.) . . . . <br />Estimated virgin flow (ac.-ft.) <br />Average annual flow--l.928-57 <br />Mlximum flov--1941 . .. <br />Mini= flow--1934 , , , . . <br /> <br />827 <br /> <br />.361,000 <br />793,000 <br />109,100 <br /> <br />9 <br /> <br />