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<br />CJ:> <br />0) <br />~ <br />N <br /> <br />III. PROJECT DESCRIPTION <br /> <br />The Yellow Jacket Project is a multipurpose development which has <br />as its primary purpose the providing of irrigation, municipal, and <br />industrial waters. High quality municipal and industrial (M&I) water <br />will be provided to the expected oil shale developers. The Project is <br />divided into two independent portions with the major portion lying in the <br />White River Basin near Meeker, Colorado, and the remaining portion lying <br />north of Meeker in the Milk Creek area, a part of the Yampa River Basin. <br />The principal features of the Project are shown on Figure 1 at the end <br />of the report. <br /> <br />The Project features in the White River area are as follows: <br /> <br />1. Lost Park Reservoir, with a capacity of 22,500 acre-feet (AF), <br />is located at an elevation of 8,200 feet on Lost Creek, a <br />tributary of the White River. The reservoir is four miles <br />from the mouth of Lost Creek which itself is nine miles up- <br />stream from Buford. In addition to Lost Creek runoff, water <br />to be impounded will also be diverted from the South Fork of <br />the Williams Fork River Basin by means of a system of collection <br />canals, and will be collected in the Lost Creek Basin. This <br />reservoir will discharge into the North Fork during irrigation <br />season. <br /> <br />2. Ripple Dam and Reservoir, with a capacity of 20,000 AF, is <br />located on the North Fork of the White River about eight miles <br />upstream from Lost Creek. Impounded waters in this reservoir <br />will be released in conjunction with Lost Park Reservoir and <br />will be diverted into the Yellow Jacket Canal. <br /> <br />3. The Yellow Jacket Canal has a length of 38 miles and initial <br />capacity of 500 cubic feet per second (cfs). This canal trans- <br />ports natural flows and the impounded flows of Lost Park <br />Reservoir from a point five miles above Buford to lands north <br />of the White River and to Josephine Basin Canal. The Yellow <br />Jacket Canal terminates north of Meeker. <br /> <br />4. Josephine Basin Canal has a length of 40.5 miles and an initial <br />capacity of 300 cfs. It diverts water from the Yellow Jacket <br />Canal near Buford and serves some lands north of the White River <br />then crosses the River to serve lands south of the White River. <br />The Canal terminates six miles southwest of Meeker. <br /> <br />The proposed Project features in the Yampa River Basin are as <br />follows: <br /> <br />1. The Thornburg Reservoir has a capacity of 20,000 AF and has <br />an elevation of 6,800 feet. It is located 16 miles northeast <br />of Meeker on Milk Creek, a tributary to the Yampa River. <br /> <br />-5- <br />