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<br />~ <br /> <br />Description of Project and Purposes: The Dallas Creek Project would consist <br /> <br />of the 80,000 acre-foot Ridgway Reservoir on the Uncompahgre River. Through <br /> <br />storage regulation, the reservoir would increase the usable water supplies <br /> <br />by an average of 39,400 acre-feet annually. The supply would include <br /> <br />11,200 acre-feet f6r irrigation of farm land which is inadequately irrigated, <br /> <br />. <br />22,600 acre-feet for municipa~ use; 5,500 acre-feet for light industrial use; <br /> <br />and 100 acre-feet as a reserve by the United States for use at the recreational <br /> <br />area at Ridgway Reservoir. The municipal and industrial supplies would be <br /> <br />constant each year but some variations would occur from year to year in <br /> <br />the irrigation supplies. The average annual irrigation supplies would <br /> <br />include 900 acre-feet of water for supplemental service of 2,850 acres <br /> <br />in the Colona and Dallas Creek areas. The remaining 10,300 acre-feet of <br /> <br />the irrigation supply would be sold to water users for supplemental use <br /> <br />i-. <br /> <br />in the part of the Uncompahgre Project which for the purpose of this <br /> <br />statement has been designated the Uncompahgre Project Serviceable area. <br /> <br />Within this serviceable area, 61,810 acres qualify under Bureau of Recla- <br /> <br />mation standards for additional water. It is not likely that all of <br /> <br />this "acreage would be served with the water to be made available, and <br /> <br />the exact acreage would be determined when subscritpions were made for <br /> <br />water. The irrigation supplies for the Colona and Uncomphagre Project <br /> <br />areas would be made available by releases from Ridgway Reservoir, The <br /> <br />supply for the Dallas Creek area would be obtained by direct diversions <br /> <br />from the Dallas Creek system; including Dallas Creek, the East and West <br /> <br />Forks, and Pleasant Valley Creek, and in exchange the water diverted would <br /> <br />be replaced to existing downstream uses by storage releases from Ridgway <br /> <br />Reservoir. <br />