WSPC03491

• File Number: 8220.106.O
• Description: Colorado River Water Projects - Animas La Plata - Project Funding
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 11/1/2003
• Author: DOI-BOR
• Title: Animas La Plata Project - Construction Cost Estimates - Report to the Secretary - November 2003
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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April 19, 1994

. April 20, 1994

February 1995

July 1995

February 26, 1996

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Reclamation requests initiation of ESA consultation
for the ALP project and critical habitat in anticipation
ofFWS designation of critical habitat for endangered
fish in the Colorado River Basin.

FWS designates critical habitat for Colorado River
endangered fish.

Project sponsors agree to divide Phase I of the project
into Stages A and B. In accordance with the project's
average annual depletion limitation of 57,100 acre-feet
specified in the reasonable and prudent alternative of
the 1991 FWS Biological Opinion, Stage A facility
construction is defined generally as: the Durango
Pumping Plant; Ridges Basin Dam and Reservoir;
Ridges Basin Inlet Conduit; Shenandoah Municipal
and Industrial (M&I) Pipeline; a Plata M&I (rural)
Pipeline; and regional road and utility relocations.
Also included is mitigation for fish, wildlife, and
wetlands.

Stage B construction includes Durango Pumping Plant
add-on pumps; Ridges Basin Pumping Plant, RBPP
transmission facilities; Long Hollow Tunnel, Durango
M&I Pipeline; Dryside Canal-Phase 1; Red Mesa
Pumping Plant-laterals-transmission facilities; Alkali
Gulch Laterals-phase 1; La Plata, NM Laterals-Phase
1; Dryside Lateral-Phase 1; Drains-Phase 1; NM
Interim Facilities; Shenandoah Pipeline; Southern Ute
Diversion Dam; and Southern Ute Inlet Canal. Also
included are recreation facilities, and fish and wildlife
and cultural resource preservation/enhancement.
Completion of Stage B allows the full development of
Phase 1.

Reclamation completes the Economic and Financial
Update Report. This detailed report utilized updated
designs and unit costs at the October 1993 price level.

FWS issues Final Biological Opinion. This opinion
deals with significant, new information that had
become available since the 1991 opinion. Reasonable
and Prudent Alternative elements are similar to the
1991 opinion with inclusions such as a clarification of
language on the allowable 57,100 acre-feet depletion,

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