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• File Number: 8549.100
• Description: Rio Grande Water Supply Study
• State: CO
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 6/1/1977
• Author: BOR
• Title: Activity 3 - Phase II -- Specific Problem Analysis - 1975 National Assessment - Rio Grande Region
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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IV. OTHER MAJOR PLANNING STUDIES

The States of the Rio Grande Region have summarized studies
pertaining to water and related land resources that have been made,
or are on-going or scheduled which are important to the assessment of
water resources in the Region. Data relating to other major planning
studies as submitted by representatives of the States follow.

COLORADO

shown on the following maps are the locations of on-going,
scheduled planning and implementation programs in ASA 1301.

Listed below with a brief description are the active and recently
completed planning studies, and the important programs underway.

1. Bureau of Reclamation, Closed Basin Project, authorized in
1972 (P. L. 92-514). Pre-construction planning underway. Will ul-
timately salvage 90.0 MGD of water by a system of wells, pumps and
conveyance canals from the Closed Basin to the Rio Grande.

2. U. S. Department of Agriculture, San Luis Valley RC&D Project...
Project Plan for San Luis Valley, Approved February 1972. Progrsms
are directed toward solutions to the water, economical, environmental,
social and recreational problems of the valley. Annual plan supple-
ment reports are prepared each year. 1976 Annual Plan Supplement No. 3
reported 12 project measures completed and eight new project messUres
proposed. Also recommended were II special studies on the forests in
cooperation with the U. S. Forest Service.

3. u. S. Department of Agriculture, Coordinated River Basin
Study, Rio Grande, Colorado - Scheduled for c~mpletion in 1977. This
study coordinates all on-going programs, and develops a water manage-
ment plan for the Basin, in cooperation with all levels of government
and local interests.

4. Study underway and sch~duled for completion in 1978. u. S.
Corps of Engineers, Rio Grande and tributaries to determine the needs
for additional improvements on the Rio Grande and tributaries in the
interest of flood control .and allied purposes.

5. Flood Plain Information Report for the Rio Grande at Monte
Vista, completed in 1969.

6. Section 208, Water Quality Management Study, State of Colo-
rado, of non-designated areaS of the State; scheduled for comple-
tion in 1978. The Rio Grande Basin has been classified as a non-
designated area. Point and non-point sources of stream pollution
will be studied.

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