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<br />CHAPTER I <br /> <br />INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />the purpose of supplying water for... irrigation and <br />municipal, domestic, industrial, and stockwater uses of <br />producing and disposing of hydroelectric power and, as <br />incidental to said purposes, for the further purpose of <br />providing for the preservation and propagation of fish and <br />wildlife . . . . <br /> <br />Construotion <br /> <br />The contract for construction of Vega Dam was awarded in 1957 and <br />the dam was completed in 1960. Other construction and <br />rehabilitation contracts were awarded beginning in 1959. All work <br />was completed in 1962. <br /> <br />projeot Desoription <br /> <br />The Collbran Project, located in west-central Colorado, has <br />developed, for multiple purposes, a major part of the unused water <br />in Plateau Creek and its principal tributaries (see frontispiece <br />map). Supplemental irrigation water can be furnished to 19,710 <br />acres and full irrigation service can be supplied to 2,500 acres of <br />land. Electrical energy is generated for use in west-central <br />Colorado. Major project works include Vega Dam and Reservoir, two <br />powerplants, two diversion dams, about 37 miles of canal, and about <br />18 miles of pipeline and penstock. The East Fork Diversion Dam and <br />Feeder Canal, along with the Bonham-Cottonwood Collection System, <br />provide water to the 1,200-acre-foot capacity Bonham Reservoir, <br />which serves as a forebay for the Molina powerplants. Seventeen <br />small privately owned storage reservoirs on the Grand Mesa situated <br />in the Cottonwood Creek and Big Creek watersheds were rehabilitated <br />and operations modified. Fifteen of th~ original 17 reservoirs <br />currently provide water for power generation through the exchange <br /> <br />5 <br />