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<br /> <br />of 6,100 acres. This area includes 1,817 acres which will receive <br />full irrigation service, and 3,917 acres to receive supplemental <br />irrigation service. The balance of 366 acres are farmsteads, <br />ditches, and roads. The project area includes 703 acres of <br />class 6W lands which would be served to the extent of existing <br />water rights. The plan also includes features for fish and wild- <br />life enhancement and recreation. <br /> <br />Because of streamflow characteristics, storage is a basic element <br />in any approach to conservation'and'multipurpose use of water <br />resources within the basin. Waters of the Rio Grande system <br />are fUlly appropriated and any storage plan requires a transbasin <br />source of supply to replace increased depletions in the b8$in. The <br />development and economy of the area is dependent on the availability <br />of our most important resource--WATER. The plan provides for <br />acquiring more of this priceless commodity through onsite storage <br />and exchange of imported San Juan water. <br /> <br />Indian Camp Dam, the major structure, located 3 miles south of <br />Talpa, will be 1,590 feet long and will rise 143 feet above the <br />streambed of the Rio Grande del 'Rancho. It will be a rock and <br />earthfill structure, with an uncontrolled overflow-chute~type <br />spillway located near the right abutment. Construction of the dam <br />will require over I 1/2 million cubic yards of fill material which <br />will be obtained from within the reservoir area. The dam will <br />impound 12,000 acre-feet of water; of this total capacity, <br />6 <br />