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<br />C~ <br /> <br />c.") <br /> <br />....~ <br /> <br />RIFLE GAP PROJECT PL~~ <br /> <br />Under this plan a reservoir of 10,000 acre-feet capacity <br /> <br />on Rifle Creek at Rifle Gap would be substituted for the en- <br /> <br />largement of F~rvey Gap Reservoir proposed for the Harvey Gap <br /> <br />Plan. Grass Valley Ditch would be improved as in that plan <br /> <br />but no work would be done on Harvey Gap Reservoir. The reservoir <br /> <br />at Rifle Gap would store winter and flood flows not divertible to, <br /> <br />or required to fill, Harvey Gap Reservoir and in addition, the <br /> <br />run-off tributary to Rifle Creek between Rifle Falls and Rifle <br /> <br />Gap. This area, which consists largely of West and Middle <br /> <br />Rifle Creeks, totals 102 square miles. Rifle Gap Reservoir would <br /> <br />thus conserve water otherwise largely ~~sted, for the use of <br /> <br />Rifle Valley Ditches below Rifle Gap and make the sunmler flow of <br /> <br />East Rifle Creek available for the Silt Project through Grass <br /> <br />Valley Ditch. <br /> <br />Water Rights <br /> <br />No filings have ever been made for a reservoir at <br /> <br />Rifle Gap. <br /> <br />46 <br />