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<br />Dallas Creek Project, Colorado <br /> <br />-6- <br /> <br />District to service residential growth in the several communities <br />and urban areas in the project area. Included in this residential <br />growth is the proposed Grand View development on Log Hill Mesa. <br />Industrial water will be allotted to the development of light <br />industries in the valley. Full service irrigation will be provided <br />to 3,880 acres on Log Hill Mesa, while 2,370 acre-feet of supplemental <br />irrigation water will be supplied to 3,470 acres in the Log Hill <br />Mesa, Dallas Creek and Colona areas. Supplemental irrigation water <br />amounting to 10,300 acre-feet will be sold to the Uncompahgre Valley <br />Water Users Association for supplemental irrigation on Association <br />lands. The Dallas Creek Project will result in an annual depletion <br />in flow of the Gunnison and Colorado Rivers of 26,700 acre-feet annually. <br /> <br />Project features, service areas and tabulated reservoir data are <br />shown in Figure 2 and Table I. <br /> <br />Fish and Wildlife Resources <br />-- <br /> <br />The project impacts an area of high fish and wildlife value. See <br />Figure 3. The habitat types and elevations are those more productive <br />of species: i.e., mule deer, elk and trout that attract a large. segment <br />of Colorado sportsmen. <br /> <br />Important stream fisheries resources in the area are Dallas Creek, and <br />tributaries: East and West Forks, Pleasant Valley Creek, Cow Creek and <br />the Uncompahgre River. These waters support populations of brook, brown, <br />cutthroat, and rainbow trout. Also present are typical nongame species <br />such as suckers, dace, and carp. The lower reaches of these various streams <br />presently are low quality fisheries due to man's activities. Pollution <br />from mine drainage and mine La~ings have severely impacted the Uncompahgre <br />River between Red Mountain Creek and the town of Ridgway. Irrigation <br />diversions have reduced flows in most of these streams to detrimental <br />levels during the irrigation season. Pleasant Valley Creek is inter- <br />mittent in .its upper, reaches, but some trout are found at lower elevations. <br /> <br />The Uncompahgre River drainage extends from high mountain areas at <br />elevations of 14,000 feet to the river valley at elevation of about <br />6,000 feet. These lands provide habitat for big game species: mule <br />deer, elk, black bear and mountain lion; upland game species: blue <br />grouse, sage grouse, cottontail, snowshoe hare and turkey; some <br />furbearing animals; waterfowl; and numerous species of nongame <br />animals normally associated with habitat types found within these <br />elevations in the Rocky Mountain area. <br />