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SUMMARY SHEETS RIO GRANDE WATER SALVAGE PROJECT, COLORADO-NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO DIVISION LOCATION The Rio Grande Water Salvage project. New Mexico Division. is located within the Rio Grande Basin in New Mexico above Caballo Reservoir, PLAN - The plan of development is to restore to the Rio Grande a substantial portion of the water now consumed by noncommercial vegetation in the Rio Grande Basin between the Colorado-New Mexico State line and Caballo Reservoir. This is to be accomplished by removing about 17,800 acres and selectively thinning about 2.800 acres of non- cqmmercial phreatophytes, and to control the regrowth on the cleared and thinned areas. The plan also would provide, as clearing pro- gresses, for construction of drains as necessary to maintain a lower water table to recover salvaged water and discourage regrowth. Water salvaQe and incidental fish and wildlife benefits would accrue from the 'project, All costs would be nonreimbursable, Included in the acreages selected for treatment for water salvage are Pueblo Indian lands, of which some 1,900 acres would be cleared for future agricultural use and some 2.800 acres would be thinned for future recreational development. PROJECT COST Phreatophyte clearing and thinning. 19,000 equivalent acres-----=~=~_=6~~---=--~=======-~-=$ Drains-=----==.-------=-=--==---=--=--=-~==--=-=-= 2.343,000 372,000 227,000 110,000 Y 3,052,000 General property--------~---o-=----------=-===---- Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife Study------ TOTAL-------------------=-=--==---======-===---===$ Y For the Bureau ot Sport Fisheries and Wildlife to conduct a 5-year study pertinent to upland game as related to vegetation in the project area. a f...... ~ , f""\ C"\ ,;.. ~ ;)