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<br />- ::'~'~j, <br /> <br />"':"-, <br />} <br /> <br />Primary storage for all project purposes would be provided on the <br /> <br />Dolores River by McPhee Reservoir, which would have total capacity of <br /> <br />381,100 acre-feet and a maximum water surface of 4,470 acres. Secondary <br /> <br />storage for municipal and industrial water would be provided at Monument <br /> <br />Creek Reservoir, which would have a capacity" of 690 acre-feet and a <br /> <br />water surface of 84 acres and .which IV0uld receive water diverted from <br /> <br />McPhee Reservoir. Dawson Draw Reservoir, with a capacity of 3,310 acre- <br /> <br />feet and a water surface of 294 acres, would be constructed specifically <br /> <br />for fish and wildlife enhancement and would be supplied primarily from <br />, <br /> <br />irrigation return flows. <br /> <br />Irrigation water would be provided for full service land in the <br /> <br />Dove Creek and Towaoc areas and for supplemental ser.vice land in the <br /> <br />Montezuma Valley area. Water for the Dove Creek land, which consists of <br /> <br />27,860 acres that are now dry-farmed, would be pumped from }!cPhee <br /> <br />Reservoir and conveyed through the 39.S-mile Dove Creek Canal and its <br /> <br />main branch, the 7.6-mile South Canal. l,ater for the Towaoc area would <br /> <br />be diverted from the reservoir through the 1.3-mile Dolores Tunnel and <br /> <br />conveyed 46.7 miles in the Dolores and Towaoc Canals, irrigating 7,500 <br /> <br />acres of land that is now semi-desert grassland. Buried pipe laterals <br /> <br />would be installed in both areas for sprinkler irrigation, and six <br /> <br />pumping plants would be constructed in the Dove Creek area to provide <br /> <br />sprinkler pressure. In the Towaoc area, the ground slope would create <br /> <br />sufficient pressure in the pipes. Supplemental service water would be <br /> <br />provided to 26,300 acres of presently irrigated land in the Montezuma <br /> <br />Valley.area. The water would be diverted through the Dolores Tunnel and <br /> <br />Canal and an existing gravity distribution system. <br />