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- 4 - - '" p ~ ....." ~ \Jv .....,J t E%llF Tos The Secretary of the 1~ t~ough the Lower Valley and provided levees, bank protection and control works, at an approximate cost of $4,000,000. Various im;n-ove~ents have teen constructed in the Rio Grande basin h1 several other Federal agencies, 1nclu:ling the 5011 Conservation Service, Indian Service, Forest Service, Fish and. Wildlife Service, and. the Civilian Conservation Corps. These all aid in the alleTlatlon of nced damages, mainly, however, in localized areas. The l,fiddle Rio Grande Conservanq District in 1935 completed works to rrovide Irrigation, drainage and flood control for about 128,000 acres of land In the &Siddle Valley. These works include El Vado DaJD and Reser- voir, located on Rio Chama near Tierra Amarilla and having a capacity of approximately 200,000 acre-feet, four diversion dams and three diversion heeding. on Rio Grande in liddle Volle", about 630 milea of irrigation canals and laterals, about 340 m.1les of interior and riverl!lide drainage ditches, and about 190 miles at riverside levees. The original cost of construction was S9,130,100, of which tl,753,100 was for E1 Vado Dam. 6. Local interests desire reservoirs on Rio Grande and its major tritutaries to provide storage for nood control and for supplemental irri- ga tion water supply. They also desire measurel!l for the control of nood- borne sedi:!8nt. EsJl8nola Valley interests advocate construction of dams above the confluence of Rio Chama and Rio Grande to provide flood control both for Uiddle and E.openola Veli.,... tntereata in the IIiddl. Valle". chiefly the ~iddle Rio Grande Co~ervancy District and the Middle Rio Gr9nde Farmers Association favor nood control dams on Rio Grande and tribu- taries above Jemez Creek and a dam in Jemez Canyon primarily to retain Bedi- cent, for the protection of the LU.ddle Valley. They also urge improvement of the Rio Grande channel through Middle Valley to solve flood and drainage problet:lS, aoo recolllMnd that the Corps of Engineers be assigned the respon- sibility for flood control and the Bureau of Reclamation that for the irri- gation and drainage phase together with the administration of the Middle Valley agricultural area. Interests in the Lower Valley advocate flood and sediment control dams to reduce damage from floods on ephemeral tribu- taries, and oppose major flood control dams above Elephant Butte Reservoir which .ould deplete the irrigation water supply available under the terms of the Rio Grande Compact.. Bluewater Valley interests desire nood and sediment control in the irrigated area of the Bluewater-Toltec Irrigation District. 111 agencies and organizations express wUlingness to cooperate to Ule limits of their respective authorities and tinances. 7. The district engineer finds that noed. problems are interrelated .ith the general problem of water resource development in the Rio Grande basin and. he baa given careful consideration to all water uses in Ule formulation of the most suitable plan tor flood control which .ould in- clude all economiea1ly Justifiable, improvements. A comprehensive plan of water resource development incorporating provisions for flood control has baen developed by the coordinated effort of the district engineer and field representatives of the Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Agri- culture, the Federal Power Commission, and other Federal and state agencies concl!rned. This plan provides generally fori (a) nood control and major dra1Mge (nood coctrol pha.. of the plan); (b) rehabilitation of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District; (c) power development; (d) recre- ational develo~nt; (e) fish and wildlife development; (f) watershed