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<br />SOUTH CANAL <br /> <br />The South Canal branches off from the Dove Creek Canal near Pleasant View, <br />Colorado and extends for 6.9 miles to the south and west. It has an initial <br />capacity of 150 cubic feet per second and a terminal capacity of 106 cubic <br />feet per second and includes turnouts to two pumping plants and three lateral <br />systems. <br /> <br />DOLORES TUNNEL <br /> <br />The Dolores Tunnel carries water through the Dolores-San Juan Divide about 2 <br />miles west of the town of Dolores. It replaces the old MVIC Tunnel which has <br />been abandoned and plugged. The maximum capacity of the new tunnel is 520 <br />cubic feet per second. <br /> <br />DOLORES CANAL <br /> <br />The Dolores Canal begins at the outlet of the Dolores Tunnel and extends 0.6 <br />miles to the south and east, supplying irrigation water to an existing canal <br />system and M&I water to the City of Cortez and Montezuma Water Company. The <br />canal will also carry water to the Towaoc Canal Powerplant. The initial <br />capacity is 520 cubic feet per second, and the terminal capacity is 475 cubic <br />feet per second. <br /> <br />TOWAOC CANAL POWERPLANT <br /> <br />The Towaoc Canal Powerplant will have a capacity of 12.2 megawatts and will <br />produce an average of 30,318,000 kilowatt-hours annually. A 78-inch diameter <br />buried pipe penstock will head at a structure on the Dolores Canal and extend <br />2.2 miles to the southwest to the powerplant. The powerplant will discharge <br />its water into the beginning of the Towaoc Canal. <br /> <br />TOWAOC CANAL <br /> <br />The Towaoc Canal will begin at the Towaoc Canal Powerplant and extend <br />southward for 45.4 miles to the full-service lands in the Towaoc area. For <br />the first two-thirds of its length the canal will approximately follow the <br />routes of two existing MVIC canals, the Lower Hermans Lateral and the <br />Highline Ditch, which the Towaoc Canal will replace. The initial capacity <br />will be 420 cubic feet per second and the terminal capacity will be 86 cubic <br />feet per second. The canal will have approximately 130 turnouts to Montezuma <br />Valley farmlands, eight turnouts to the Rocky Ford Laterals, and five <br />turnouts to the Towaoc Laterals. <br /> <br />ROCKY FORD LATERALS <br /> <br />Approximately eight short pipe laterals will be constructed to deliver <br />irrigation water under gravity pressure from the Towaoc Canal to farmland <br />previously served by MVIC's Rocky Ford Ditch. The Rocky Ford Ditch has been <br />identified as a major source of salinity in the Montezuma Valley area and <br />will be largely abandoned when the Rocky Ford Laterals are completed. <br /> <br />3 <br />