WSP04498

• File Number: 8276.120
• Description: Grand Valley Unit-Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 6/1/1983
• Title: Supplement To Definite Plan Report: Stage Two Development Grand Valley Unit
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Definite Plan Report

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CHAPTER II

UNIT SETTING

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Palisade Irrigation District, Mesa County Irrigation District, the

Orchard Mesa Irrigation District, and the Redlands Water and Power

Company. The Federal portion of the system is basically the Grand Valley

Project, constructed between 1912 and 1917 by the U.S. Reclamation

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Service (now the Bureau of Reclamation), and which now carries water to

the Palisade, Mesa County, and Orchard Mesa Irrigation Districts in

addition to its own facilities.

Private developments

Grand Valley Irrigation Company

The Grand Valley Irrigation Company system serves about a 28,600-

acre strip of land north of the Colorado River and south of the lands

served by the Government Highline Canal and the Price Ditch. The princi-

pal feature of the system is the Grand Valley Canal which diverts from

the Colorado River at Palisade.

The Grand Valley Canal is about 12.5 miles long. At about 7.6 miles

from the point of diversion, water is diverted to the Mesa County Ditch,

paralleling the canal. about 1 mile south of it.

The Grand Valley

Canal, utilizing 52 independent laterals, serves about 4,230 acres of

land.

The Mesa County Ditch and its 19 independent laterals provide

water to approximately 1,090 acres.

At its terminus, the Grand Valley

Canal divides into the Grand Valley Highline and the Grand Valley Main-

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line Canals.

The Grand Valley Highline continues for 23.5 miles parallel to and

roughly 2 miles south of the Government Highline Canal. The canal and

80 laterals serve 7,240 acres. The Grand Valley Highline canal termin-

ates north of Fruita by delivering its remaining water to the Kiefer

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