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<br />Coal has recently assumed major importance with the discovery of large <br />beds of high grade coking coal south of the North Fork River near Bardine. <br />Coal resources are estimated to total some 5.6 billion tons. <br /> <br />Proposed Development <br /> <br />The Paonia Project would meet the irrigation water needs of the area by <br />storage, regulation, and exchange of present water supplies. Excess <br />runoff would be stored in a proposed Paonia Reservoir on Muddy Creek, <br />a tributary to the North Fork of the Gunnison River. The reservoir <br />would partly equalize the flows on this stream and substantially augment <br />the late-season irrigation water supplies. <br /> <br />The Paonia Reservoir on Muddy Creek, with a capacity of 11,000 <br />acre feet of irrigation water and an estimated 10,000 acre feet of silt, <br />would be formed by an earthfi 11 dam approximately 17 miles east of the <br />town of Paonia. The reservoir would provide additional water for the <br />l4,380-acre project. <br /> <br />.. 7 - <br />