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I ( ~ ,\ / / ,--j \/ I ' ~Y ,/ 0~j \ ,"'l~ .// .<.,~;/ -\,'" ' , ~( ',' I~ /" i::c~. '1 .I,,">;' t'i' \ t'/Q.'~ / " \ Ys) ) \ \. / Aztec. / ) )! ~J,/\ ,Jut ,.-^ 1'/ J "",""","" ,~ z._~, I S"'1l JI./ - .-_~ ~ Bloomfield '-\ ""." '- ~ ~ I '~T--"~------.../ 5en Jua;R;-;- ,_,L~\ , . "+ 'm~ I "." ~-"~^~thes.n.MtnWal"'CommiulOl\,/ugusll9l/9, 6onOOoninlc"'...IlM'!,omlh.AnlfM..18P181.prnje<:r..flnafSuPl'Iom<mll"I.....F"'.ISlal.moor. r I Mcsil\lerde N<llion~11 Par!" ~, '" f\1!)\i'1t2in U\~) \. \ " 1;", ~l;~."..~,.,.." "'.in 0<; River 1;!I13\\C COLORADO NEW MEXICO , 1.,,'Cl, ,'I,,)'" \ i r--", " \ ~./--r'"--..._ I--' ( '\, Hm componcms (see page 9), Norably, H.1t 3112 does Ilot specify a size for the reservoir and instead chose to wait for the findings of the recently released 2000 EIS (januI"Y), Of the 10 :drernatives reviewed by the Bureau in the $5 million draft 2000 EIS (the final 2000 EIS is due our arollnd the end of May 2000), one was determined to be the preferred alterna- tive; a 120,000 acre-feet reservojr including water For a tlshery and possibly, a recreation component. According to the report, the larger reservoir (larger than the administra~ tion's Ultra Lite) will meet water quality requiremems and could ensure instream flows for endangered fish under the San Juan River Basin Recovery and Imple- mentation Program conrinue during critical flow periods (in the spring when the native fish spawn). Project support- ers say a larger reservoir also would provide municipal and industrial (M&I) \ \, So\Jth~rn Ute Indian pam &R~.""",~ /~ \ \ , " "'",,, ::" 'i''':' '.:,,--, 'I()~. users with a reserve of water ill dry years and could be used to meet future population booms predicted in the basin over the next century, including the Navajo Nation (as proposed, a pipeline would bring warer to the Navajo reservation near Shiprock), the ALP Water Conservancy District (city of Durango) and the San Juan Water Commission (M&l uses in New Mexico), The estimated cost for the preferred alternative is $278 million - more rhan Ultra Lite but an extra cost some project proponents say is a necessity, "In a dry year, you would drain every drop of water out of the administration's reservoir and what you would have is a mudhole," said Randy Kirkpatrick, director of the San Juan Water Conser- vancy, which would receive abour 1 0,000 acre~feet annually of the project's water, Each Colorado Ute tribe would receive 19,980 acre-feet of water for ( \ , ~""_t_""._ P\.rn Planl , ----- rR~M8llS"Dam / -~] '7--- J / r !~j/ ) SO'.Itbu'" ');" ipd!nn ~~:(;S i "'-;.11(0:-' \ Animas-La Plata: Before & After LEGEND Irrigated Lands . Original Ridges Ba."in and Southern Ute Indian Reservoirs . . New Ridges Basin Reservoir Urban Areas depletions under the administration proposal, but there is still a shortfall of about 13,000 acre-feet of water that was agreed to under the 1988 Settlement Act (see page 8). For that, the tribes would receive $40 million for purchas- ing lamf and corresponding water rights or, possibly, for constructing infrastruc- ture to deliver reservoir water to the reservatIons. Though in its new form all the water from ALP would go towards M&I purposes, the original ALP was autho- rized primarily as an irrigation project, Despite all of the irrigation components being dropped as it evolved into an M&l project in the late '90s, the irrigation componenrs from the 1968 Act remain attached. While Ultra Lite calls for de-authorizing these compo- nents, H.R. 3112 does not call for de- authorization and instead leaves open the possibility of building the irrigation components in the future provided they SPRING .1999 . RIVER REPORT . COLORADO RIVER PROJECT . 5