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<br />, <br /> <br />" "001.751 <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />Honte Vista, Colorado <br />Februa!7 7, 1946 <br /> <br />PROGRESS 1IEPOR!l! <br />SAJr LUIS VALLEY PB.OJEC!l!, COLORADO <br />JanU&1'7. 1946 <br /> <br />COJEJOS DIVISIOB <br /> <br />Reservoir operation studies for a 135.000 acre~foot reservoir <br />at the Counsellor si te were completed duriDg the month. <br /> <br />Collection of economic and related agricultural data continued <br />throughout the lIonth. <br /> <br />The Branch of Design .and Construction completed rough prel1m11l81'7 <br />sstimates for comparative'p~oses as between 135,000 ,acre~foot rese~ <br />voir at the Counsellor site and the combination'of 105.000 acre~foot <br />capacity at the Counssllor site and 30.000 acre-foot capacity at the <br />Mogote site. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Studies were initiated to determine the most desir~b1e plan of <br />development on the basis of \he Chief EDgineer's pre1bl1Dar7 estimates. <br /> <br />! <br /> <br />As a result of a conference 'b7 the ProJect Engineer with the <br />statf of the Regional Director of the liSh and Wildlife Service at <br />Albuquerque. the Service prepared, SUbJect to further review and <br />adJustments, tentative benefit appraisals for a 135~OOO acre-fsot <br />reservoir at the Counsellor site. <br /> <br />The National Park Service completed a review of previsus studies <br />of the recreational potentialities at the Counsellor site, aDd con-' <br />firmed previous estimates of the recreational benefits for a 135,000 <br />acre-foot reservoirst the CODllse110r site. <br /> <br />RIO GRAmlJI DIVISION <br /> <br />I. <br />. ~ <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />!l!here were no acUvi ties on this division duriDg the month. <br /> <br />Unconfirmed rumors indicate that the counter-petition opposiDg <br />the formation of a Conservanq District, for which a petition was <br />filed ill December, will have sufficient signers to prevent the forma- <br />tion of the District as original17 petitiened. <br />