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<br />the settlers on the project can, when it beCvmee nacessarJ, <br />provide fer themselves. This investigation therefore deals <br />only with supplemental etorege. <br />Weter will be drawn from storage during each of the <br />months of June, July, AUgullt, and September, except in tholle <br />rare ;rears whon the tlood lasts tllrough Jun.e or hel!.VY reins <br />occur in September. <br />Jec~son Gulch Reservoir Develooment <br />Located on the masa between West ~encos liiver end <br />Chicken Creak, this site ill in a dry gulch and is best "dapted <br />to Il cepacity ot 10,000 ncre-feet. Water would be secured by <br />6 ditoh 2.56 miles long from the West Mancos River with a cepa- <br />city of 250 second-teet. WetGr released from the rEll'lervoir is <br />roturned to the river by 0 ditch 2.4 miles long with I!. capacity <br />ot 200 second-feet. An eerth till dam 1930 faet 10Dg will' <br />Eltore watel" to a depth ot 130 feet. Halt the entire flow of <br />the Moncos Rival' eYGtelll is available above the diversion hea~ <br />ing. <br /> <br />With continuation 1n the anrly irriget10n se~Bon of <br />the present 1iberel uee of water, e JacksoD Gulch Reeervoir of <br />10,000 acre-feet c~~.city serving on irrigated arae of 10,000 <br />l1crell, would in the ll>at 16 yeers have filled in ten of thesll <br />yeers, would hevEl nearly filled in three otner yeers, end would <br />neVe provided a 1'ull or nearly full water supply except in the <br /> <br />2266 <br /> <br />o <br />