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

Highline Canal serve some of the district's lands.

The last 2.5 miles

of the Price Ditch is concrete lined.

Mesa County Irrigation District

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The Mesa County Irrigation District delivers water through the Stub

Ditch which is 10.2 miles long and serves 48 privately owned laterals.

The Stub Ditch, of which 3.5 mi les is concrete lined, serves about 900

acres of land.

Orchard Mesa Irrigation District

The Orchard Mesa Irrigation District serves lands south of the

Colorado River.

Its facilities consist of the Orchard Mesa Power Canal,

Pumping Plant, and Canals Nos. 1 and 2. The Orchard Mesa facilities were

originally constructed by private capital, but in 1922 the district

entered into a contract to become a division of the Grand Valley Project.

The Orchard Mesa Power Canal extends about 3.5 miles along the east

side of the Colorado River to terminate about 1 mile south of Palisade at

the Grand Valley Powerplant and the Orchard Mesa Pumping Plant. Through

this reach it delivers irrigation water to approximately 560 acres of

land, utilizing 14 independently owned and operated laterals.

The Orchard Mesa Pumping Plant lifts water to two Orchard Mesa

canals. Orchard Mesa Canal No. 1 is 16.3 miles long, while Orchard Mesa

Canal No.2 lS 17.3 miles long and is gunite lined for its entire

length.

These two canals convey water to 163 privately owned and oper-

ated laterals on Orchard Mesa, south of the Colorado River. This system

provides water to about 6,830 acres.

The Grand Valley Powerplant was constructed by the Federal Govern-

ment with funds advanced by the Public Service Company of Colorado. The

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