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<br />Base p/~n is selected fro';;nine. ..
<br />for San Miguel water projecft 71 ..
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<br />;';ORWOOD' _Th~ board of the '. Box Park north of Norwood, Lily; fora coal.burnin~eleC!nCgcncr'
<br />San Miguel, Water' Conservancy Lands west. of Redvale and Dry f" ation station. ,. .' ,,', , ' ,
<br />,'District. and the Durango branch Creek Basin, west of Norwood, The project \vould bea'partici'
<br />:, of the Western Colorado Projects Supplemental water pating unit of the Colorado River
<br />"office, have selected a 'base plan The lands that will receive sup., Storage Project, and' wouldrc'
<br />',' for the proposed San Miguel Proj., plemental supplies o( water are' ceive' assistance' from revenues
<br />ect from nine plans studied duro 12,000 acres on Wright's Mesa from power' generated at' Gleil
<br />ing the past year, near Redvale and Norwood, . : Canyon, Curec~htiand other hy.
<br />" Target date for completion of a The surface of Sallado Reser.' dro,eleclric stations to repay part
<br />definite plan report for the proj. voir would be at elevation 7,200 'of the costs to the U,S, Treasury, ,
<br />ect is December of 1977, . feet, well below the Placerville Norwood, Nucla, Naturita and
<br />, The base plan.' community,The reservoir would Uravan could purchase' munici.
<br />, ' The base'plan includes Sallado' in part be a diversion structure pal wate~from the, project,., '
<br />'.Reservoir on the Sari Miguel for the pipeline"rather than pro-' "-",";",_.J",' c,
<br />,River with a capacity of 28,000 viding simpie"storage,.Jt will fill ';',,'."" .,l' ,,-,.,,;,.,',j.'; ,of'"~
<br />acre.feet; a' pressure pipeline several times' a .year under plans ,-
<br />'about 10 miles long that wouid be oUhe bureau,' ,
<br />huried in the river' streambed. . Interest expressed '
<br />and that would lift the watcr to a Some of the water. could be
<br />"pointne'ar,the Norwood airfield, used to generate electricity at a
<br />': 'northeast of NorwoOd; and pumps, hydro.electrieplant near Nor'
<br />, . to \Ht water to seme of the project,; wood. Penstoc,ks from the end of
<br />:' lands, and canals,' ,.' .: '.'" ',.the pressure pipeline, could take
<br />',,' About half of the project waler', water to turbines on the canyon
<br />":.'would ' be: for irrigation of new:' floor, Colorado-,Ute Electric Asso'~
<br />,:-;Iands, with the o~her half for sup.' ciatio~ ~as expressed }nterest,in
<br />:;plemental supplies for lands un- electnclty from such a plant." ,
<br />;)'~,~,er Irrlgatio1' at p,res~nt" _,_)" Colorado.Ute may also buy
<br />,.'",,,,nThe;,.full;.servlce,<lrrtgatlon ,some water for development.of
<br />,",ould be for 14,000 acre's In Mail '., coal reser~es in the Nuela area,
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