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<br />SUMMARY--LYMAN PROJECT <br /> <br />LOCATION: Southwestern Wyoming on Blacks Fork, its tributaries, and <br />Willow Creek, about 40 miles northeast of Evanston, Upper <br />Colorado River Basin. <br /> <br />IRRIGATION WATER SUPPLY <br /> <br />Direct flow diversions <br />Bridger Reservoir releases <br />Usable return flow <br />Total project supply <br />Project stream depeletion <br />(Additional water consumed on oropped lands <br />would be offset by water saved through <br />improved irrigation and.drainage) <br /> <br />70,700 acre-feet <br />32,500 acre-feet <br />11,100 acre-feet <br />114,300 acre-feet <br />o <br /> <br />IRRIGATED ACREAGE <br /> <br />Lands receiving supplemental water <br />(Some presently irrigated nonarable lands <br />1JJay be abandoned and their water supply <br />transferred to now idae arable lands) <br /> <br />40,600 acres <br /> <br />COST AND PAYMENT <br /> <br />Total construction cost <br />(Exclusive of $53,000 expsnded from <br />nonreimbursable Colorado River Development <br />Fund) <br />Allocable to irrigation <br />Repayable by water users in 50 years <br />Required from Upper Colorado River Account <br /> <br />$9,847,000 <br />$9,847,000 <br />$2,125,000 <br />$7,722,000 <br /> <br />Total annual increase in operation, maintenance, <br />and replaoement costs . <br />Payable annually by water users <br /> <br />$25,550 <br />$25,550 <br /> <br />BENEFIT-C OST RATIO <br /> <br />1.02 to 1 <br /> <br />REMARKS <br /> <br />Project is dependent on more efficient irrigation than that now <br />practiced. Adjustment in water rights is required to permit storage <br />of surplus spring flows now accruing to direct flow rights. Amend- <br />ment to Wyoming water law is required to permit transfer of water <br />from one land tract to another. <br /> <br />Hi <br />