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<br />~ I <br />! <br /> <br />] <br /> <br />"..: <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />, . <br />, ' <br /> <br />PART III-.D COLORADO RIVER BASH: <br /> <br />for priva~ely developed areas. The principal irrigation systems ~D <br /> <br />the San Juan River Basin are the Pine River Irrigation District, <br /> <br />Florida Wa~er Conservancy District, Mancos ~la~er Conservancy Distri..,'. <br /> <br />- <br />.. . <br /> <br />Summi~ R~servoir and Irrigation Company and the Montezuma Valley <br /> <br />IITiga~ion Company. These five organizations serve about 76 perc"n~ <br /> <br />of the irrigated cropland in the basin. Federal projects in the s~~ <br /> <br />Juan River drainage such as Pine 'River, Mancos and Florida Projects <br /> <br />were constructed primarily to supply reservoir regulation of water <br /> <br />supplies to priva~ely developed irrigated lands. There are 16 res- <br /> <br />ervoirs of 500 acre-feet or greater capacity of which three were <br /> <br />./ <br />., <br /> <br />'--' <br /> <br />federally construc~ed and 13 privately constructed. <br /> <br />MINERAL PRODUCTION <br /> <br />Within the Colorado River Basin in Colorado, mineral productic~ <br /> <br />provided the original stimulus for settlement and development of the <br /> <br />basin. <br /> <br />---'Oil, natural gas, coal, uranium, vanadium, zinc, lead and moly- <br /> <br />bdenum are currently being produced in ~he basin and provide a signi- <br /> <br />ficant contribution to the area's economy. <br /> <br />The basin holds vas~ reserves. of. high quality coal which remai~" <br /> <br />virtually untouched. The ever increasin~ demands for electric power <br /> <br />.is resulting in studies and evaluations of plans to utilize coal for <br /> <br />power production. The problem of air pollution caused by coal fir~d <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />generation plants, however, has slowed plans for plant construct ion, <br /> <br />'0293 <br /> <br />c <br /> <br />-::m.- .9 g <br />3/ <br />