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c",> t.. c, "" c. c_ :{:',,'" ',,'../1- Reclamation contract in 1988, additional material will be excavated, and a new spillway will be built as part of the safety of dams mOdifjcation. The immediate area around the dam, including an approximately 1/2-mile stretch of the Salt River below the structure, has been closed to the public and will remain closed until after modification work has been completed. DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS NON-INDIAN -- Reclamatjon is participating in construction of 10 distribution systems. Three of these systems -- Chaparral City Water Company, and Tonopah and Harquahala Valley Irrigation Districts -- are essentially complete, and they have been transferred to the entities for operation and maintenance (O&M). Constructjon continues on the Hohokam and Queen Creek/Chandler Heights Citrus/San Tan irrigation district systems, on portions of the New Magma, Central Arizona, and Maricopa- Stanfield irrigation district systems, and on the multjple-user Santa Rosa Canal. Portions of the Central Arizona and New Magma systems have also been transferred to the districts for D&M. The first 32 miles of the Santa Rosa Canal are complete and delivering water, and this portion of the system has been transferred to O&M status. Construction on the final 31 mjles of the canal is 97 percent complete, and initial filling of completed sections is underway. Deliverjes from the second half of the canal wjll begin early this summer. INDIAN -- Construction of the Ak Chin distribution system continues. Initial CAP water deljveries to the communjty will occur later this summer. WATER SERVICE SU8CONTRACTING MUNICIPAL AND INDUSTRIAL -- M&I water service subcontracts have been signed by 51 entities. The signings total 503,181 acre- feet of water, or 78.6 percent of the 640,000 acre-foot M&I allocatjon. Five entities, with just over 3 percent of the M&I allocation, have formally declined subcontracts; three entities have been offered contracts, but have received extensions; and 23 entities have yet to be offered contracts. AGRICULTURE -- Ten entities have signed water servjce subcontracts. This represents 70.70 percent of the water for this category. Seven entities, with 16.85 percent of the allocatjon, have declined to sign subcontracts; three entities have been offered contracts but have not yet signed; and three entities have not yet been offered contracts. INDIAN -- Nine of the ten Indian tribes allocated CAP water have signed contracts. The Gila River Indian Community has not yet signed a water servjce contract. 4 0'; 4