WSPC05982

• File Number: 8541
• Description: San Luis Valley Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 6/1/1982
• Title: San Luis Valley Project Closed Basin Division - 1982 - Fish and Wildlife Report for the Closed Basin Division, San Luis Valley Project, Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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(a) Table 2 - Raptor/use days ....
(cbl Table 3 - Shorebird/use days . . .
( Table 4 - Marsh and Waterbird/use

days. . . . . . . .
(3) Bird Species of Hi9h Federal Interest

C. With the Project. . . . . . . . . . .
1 . Fi shery . . . . . . . . . . . . .
a. Blanca Wildlife Habitat Area
b. San Luis Lake. . . . .
c. Main Conveyance Channel
d. Rio Grande .. . . . .

2. Wildlife .. . . . . . . .
a. Big Game - Upland Game
b. Wetland .......
(1) Definition. . . . . . . . .
(2) Impacts ..........
(a) Main Conveyance Channel
(b) Roads.. . . .
[1] Summary . .
(c) Pumping.. . .
(d) Unquantifiable
c. Vegetation .. . . . .' .
(1) Impacts ......
(a) Pumping". . . .

d. Wa terfowl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(1) Table 5 - Summary of Ducks Produced in
Project Area . . . . . . . . . . . .
(2) Table 6 - Summary of Ducks Produced on
Wetlands Affected by the Project
e. Other Water Birds .
f. Endangered Species.
g. Structures ....

V. Discussion

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1. Mitigation
a. Water Delivery
b. Fishery . . . . . . . . . . . .
(1) Blanca Wildlife Habitat Area
c. Wetlands. . . . . . . . . . . . .
(1) Mitigation Policy. . . . . . . . .
(a) Table 7 - Environmental Effects
Construction Period .....
(b) Resource Category 2, Defined .
(2) Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge. .
(a) Improvement of Habitat . . . .
(b) Conveyance Channel Structures.
(c) Emperious Estate . . . . .

(3) Blanca Wildlife Management Area
(a) Improvement of Habitat. .

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A. General.

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