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<br />Ci:! <br />- <br />co <br />- <br /> <br />CHAPTER V <br /> <br />ALTERNATIVES STUDIED <br /> <br />This chapter includes discussion of three development plans includ- <br />ing irrigation service that were studied in some detail but found to be <br />unjustified economically under present economic conditions. These are <br />plans for the alternative Ohio Creek Unit, the Tomichi Creek Unit, and <br />the Cochetopa Creek Unit. The chapter also discusses various alterna- <br />ti ve reservoir sites and canal alignments. <br /> <br />Alternative Ohio Creek Unit <br /> <br />Unit plan <br /> <br />The alternative Ohio Creek Unit would be located along Ohio Creek <br />and along the Gunnison River between Almont and the city of Gunnison. <br />The unit would make available the flows of the Gunnison River and Ohio <br />Creek for municipal and domestic purposes and irrigation. The unit would <br />develop an average of 11,900 acre-feet of water annually at diversion <br />points, including about 6,000 acre-feet for municipal and domestic use to <br />meet requirements for the city of Gunnison and adjacent rural areas and <br />5,900 acre-feet for irrigation. Irrigation service would be provided to <br />6,070 acres of supplemental service land and 100 acres of full service <br />land. <br /> <br />Water would be provided from storage in the existing Taylor Park <br />Reservoir on Taylor River, a tributary of the Gunnison River, diversions <br />of direct flow from Ohio Creek made available by exchange, and reuse of <br />return flows. The storage water from Taylor Park Reservoir would be ob- <br />tained through agreements with the Uncompahgre Project Water Users' Asso- <br />ciation, which currently operates the reservoir. <br /> <br />Water from Taylor Park Reservoir would be released to the Taylor <br />River. Supplies for municipal, domestic, and irrigation use would be di- <br />verted into the Paragon Canal, which would head on the Gunnison River <br />about 22 miles below the reservoir. Approximately 1.4 miles from the ca- <br />nal head the municipal and domestic supplies would be diverted into the <br />potential Gunnison Pipeline for conveyance to the city of Gunnison and to <br />intermediate delivery points. The irrigation supplies would continue in <br />the canal to existing ditches serving lands along lower Ohio Creek. Some <br />water presently used on lands below the Paragon Canal would be provided <br />with storage releases from Taylor Park Reservoir and in exchange natural <br />flow presently used on these landS would be transferred to lands above <br />the canal on Ohio Creek. Some of the water used on the higher lands <br />would return to Ohio Creek and would be rediverted to the lower lands. <br /> <br />33 <br /> <br />I <br />