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<br />" <br /> <br />300129 <br /> <br />- 15 <br /> <br />Individual projects are described under the basin headings <br />and the resultant total effect of potential project development <br />in the separate basins is described. The effect of state develop- <br />ment for some of the areas has also been evaluated. <br /> <br />A. Upper San Juan River Basin. <br />1. San Juan-Chama Project <br />The San Juan-Chama Project would divert water from the San <br /> <br />Juan River and its tributaries in the vicinity of Pagosa Springs <br />and Edith, Colorado for use in the Rio Grande and Canadian <br />River Basins in New Mexico. The ultimate diversion plan, des- <br />cribed in the repot on the project dated Nqvember, 1955 by the <br />Bureau of Reclamation, would divert water from the West Fork <br />of the San Juan River, the East Fork of the San Juan River, <br />the Rio Blanco, the Little Navajo River, and the Navajo River <br />into a main conduit that would then pass through the low divide <br />near Chama, New Mexico into the Rio Grande Basin. Regulatory <br />storage would be provided on the East Fork, the West Fork, and <br />on the Rio Blanco. It was estimated in the report that the <br />project could divert, in a period such as 1928-1951, an annual <br />average of 235,000 acre feet, with allowances for by-passing <br />sufficient amounts to meet downstream water rights, and maintain <br />fish and sanitary flows. An allowance was also made in this <br /> <br />plan to provide an annual average of 34,V.OO acre feet for the <br />potential Dulce-Chama-Navajo Project in New Mexico and Colorado <br />which could be served from the Navajo River. <br /> <br />;, <br /> <br />t <br />r <br />,~ 11 " <br />