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<br />Two other pumping plants on the Animas River provide raw <br />water for irrigation of the Green Mountain Cemetery and <br />Durango High School grounds. Each of these plants has a <br />capacity of 1.33 cfs. . <br /> <br />The city of Durango is to receive 8,200. acre-feet of <br />municipal and industrial water from the reservoir annually. <br />Durango presently diverts water for M&I use from the Florida <br />River immediately downstream of Lemon Dam and pipes it to <br />a reservoir immediately east of the city for treatment, <br />storage and distribution. During high demands, additional <br />water is pumped into the reservoir from the Animas River. <br />Durango accounts for 95' of the M&I demand in the area. <br /> <br />Under the original project plans, the rural water users <br />and the ute Mountain Utes would need to provide secondary <br />storage for municipal and industrial water delivered through <br />the Dryside canal because the canal could have freezing <br />and maintenance problems during the Winter months. Hence, <br />pumping in the canal will only occur from April through <br />October. Water is available from the Dry side Canal (for <br />M&I) April, May, August, September, and October. Water is <br />not available June and July because the capacity of the Dry <br />Side Canal is used for irrigation water. <br /> <br />Most rural users either rely on private wells or because <br />of problems such as undependable supplies or poor quality, <br />haul their water for domestic consumption. An example of the <br />rural water users' needs can be seen near Marvel, Colorado <br />where 1,500 people haul their water from a spring nearby. <br />Under the phased construction of the project it is unclear <br />how these needs are going to be met. <br /> <br />Under the original plans, the La Plata Diversion Dam would <br />be 7.5 acres in size and 8.5 feet deep. <br /> <br />The size of the Southern Ute Diversion Dam would be 17 acres <br />and 9.5 feet deep. <br /> <br />The plans discussed in the EIS for the Southern Ute Dam <br />call for a reservoir which is 2.6 miles long with 70,000 <br />acre-feet capacity (40,000 active whiCh provides 1,386 <br />surface area and 30,000 dead storage which provides.821 <br />surface acres. There would be 37 surface additional acres <br />at the top of dead storage and 1421 acres at the top of <br />surcharge. 10 miles of fence around the re.ervoir will be <br />required for management purposes. <br /> <br />There i. considerable disaqreement over. the w~ter u.e <br />figures for the local area. Supposedly conservation measures <br />such a. metering, raising rates, and restricting lawn <br />watuing have been instituted in th. ~pmmun~tie".d <br />Through the incorporation of .uchmeasure.; th.'surellu <br /> <br />22 <br />