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<br />An average annual water supply of 200,000 alf would be <br />developed by using flows of the Animas and La Plata Rivers. <br />The project would supply full or supplemental water to <br />irrigate 70,100 acres and provide municipal and industrial <br />water for the city of Durango, for the ute Mountain Ute <br />Indian Tribe, and the Southern ute Indian Tribe, and for the <br />cities of Aztec and Farmington in New Mexico. 65,500 acres <br />would be sprinkler irrigated and 4,600 acres would be <br />gravity irrigated. <br /> <br />To meet the above needs, 130,000 alf of active storage <br />capacity would be provided at Ridges Basin Reservoir and <br />40,000 alf of active storage at the Southern Ute Reservoir. <br />The project irrigation demand would average 118,100 alf <br />annually. Of this amount, 21,900 alf would be used on <br />supplemental service lands and 96,200 alf on full service <br />lands. <br /> <br />The Dry Side Canal would serve about 57,290 acres, which <br />includes 43,510 acres of nonreservation lands, 1,800 acres <br />of scattered Southern Ute Indian lands, and 11,980 acres of <br />ute Mountain ute Indian lands. All of the above acreage is <br />in Colorado, except for 380 acres of Ute Mountain Ute Indian <br />lands in New Mexico. <br /> <br />The full and supplemental service lands below the Dry Side <br />Canal in both Colorado and New Mexico would be sprinkler <br />irrigated. The 43,510 acre service area of the Dry Side <br />Canal includes 1,520 acres of full service lands lying above <br />the canal. The water for sprinkler irrigation of these lands <br />will be by pumping from the Dry Side Canal. There are about <br />4,600 acres of presently irrigated lands above the Dry Side <br />Canal, which will receive a supplemental supply by exchange <br />through gravity irrigation. Approximately 460 acres of these <br />lands are owned by the ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe. <br /> <br />The following is the irrigation water supply summary: <br /> <br /> land land <br /> area area <br /> (acres) (acres) <br />Full service Lands <br /> Non-Indian 54,600 30,310 11,900 4,530 <br /> Southern Ute 3,300 1,800 <br /> Ute Mountain <br /> Ute 25,600 11,600 800 380 <br /> Subtotal 83,500 43,710 12,700 4,910 <br /> <br />Colorado <br />avg.annual <br />water supply <br />(acre-feet) <br /> <br />New Mexico <br />avg. annual <br />water supply <br />(acre-feet) <br /> <br />8 <br />