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 V

STAGE TWO PLAN OF DEVELOPMENT

lean clays have been identified which could furnish suitable refill

materials.

These sites are above the Government Highline Canal and are

mostly on Federal land administered by the Bureau of Land Management.

These material sites could probably also provide a source of embankment

material for the detention dams and ditches.

Sand and gravel for concrete aggregate and road surfacing could come

from developed sources along the Colorado and Gunnison Rivers.

Three

commercial operations presently produce ready mix concrete and these and

other pits also process sand and gravel suitable for road material.

Right-of-Way

The Stage Two plan of development involves water conveyance systems

on both government and private development lands.

Right-of-way for

facilities on government lands have been reserved by the United States

and are assumed to be adequate for construction, operation, and mainte-

oaoe e .

No right-of-way acquisition is anticipated on private lands

because it lS assumed that all required lateral right-of-way would be

donated by landowners benefiting from lateral improvement and that

existing canal right-of-way is adequate.

Administration

The Grand Valley Water Users Association would continue to admin-

ister the Government Highline Canal and laterals.

Laterals associated

with the remaining systems would be administered by cooperation of

individual lateral owners as they are now. As discussed in the following

section it lS assumed that the owners of each lateral would formally

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