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<br />....-j <br />o:::r< <br />C'j <br />C\! <br /> <br />CHAPTER IV <br /> <br />PLAN FORMULATION <br /> <br />thus the Flag Creek and Josephine Basin areas would not be served. This <br />change, coupled with the reduction in water supply for the coal industry, <br />would make it possible to provide more irrigation in the Little Beaver <br />area. <br /> <br />A total annual water supply of 131,600 acre-feet would be developed, <br />mostly for energy uses as shown in the following table. <br /> <br />Water supply summary <br />(acre-feet per year) <br />White Milk <br />River Creek <br />Segment Segment <br />60,000 0 <br />24,000 6,900 <br />26,800 0 <br />o 8,900 <br />5,000 0 <br />115,800 15,800 <br /> <br />Uses <br />Oil shale industry <br />Coal industry <br />Sprinkler irrigation <br />Surface irrigation <br />Municipal <br />Total <br /> <br />Total <br />60,000 <br />30 , 900 <br />26,800 <br />8,900 <br />5,000 <br />131,600 <br /> <br />Irrigation water would be supplied to about 15,570 acres of land. <br />A portion of the full service land in the Little Beaver area would be <br />newly-farmed land, never broken or cleared. This newly-irrigated land <br />would be limited to small tracts adjacent to presently cultivated <br />tracts that would receive water although there would be some additional' <br />land serviced by extension of the conduit into Four-mile Gulch. The <br />irrigable land area is summarized below. <br /> <br />Area <br />Milk Creek <br />Li'ttle Beaver <br />Total <br /> <br />Irrigable land summary <br />, (acres) <br />Irrigation Full <br />method service <br />Surface 2,.430 <br />Sprinkler 10,000 <br />12,430 <br /> <br />Supplemental <br />Service <br />1,690 <br />1,450 <br />3,140 <br /> <br />Total <br />4,120 <br />11,450 <br />15,570 <br /> <br />The general plan for the Milk Creek Segment differs from the pre- <br />viously described plan in two important items. The first of these is a <br />provision for water importation from Morapos Creek to Thornburgh Reser- <br />voir by the Morapos Feeder Conduit. The second item is that irriga- <br />tion water would be diverted from Milk Creek into the Milk Creek Canal <br />by the Milk Creek Diversion Dam about 4.5 miles downstream from Thorn- <br />burgh Reservoir. <br /> <br />The Milk Creek Canal would meander northwesterly to serve lands <br />west of the creek. Lands east of the stream would be served by the lIes <br />Lateral which would branch from the canal at a point about 3.2 miles <br />from the diversion dam. The canal and lateral would be open conveyance <br />systems to provide water for conventional surface irrigation. <br /> <br />51 <br />