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. . . N ~ c SU~~lARY SHEETS Animas-La Plata Proje"t LOCATION Southwestern Colorado and northwestern New :le.<ico in the San Juan Rive~ Basin of the Upper Colorado River Basin. PT ~"" _."\.0.1 The Animas-La Plata ?roject would utilize flows uf the Animas and La Plata Rivers for irrigation and municipal and industrial use. ".i:t would also provide fish and wildlife measures. recreation facilities, a cultural resources program, and area redevelcpmenc.. Servic~ would be provided to the La Plata Water Conservancy District in Colorado; the L~ Plata Conservancy District and tne cities of Azcec, Bloomfield. and Farmington in New Mexico; the Ute Nouncain Ute Indian 7ribe; the .southern Ute Indian Tribe; and the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority. Primary storage would be ?rovi~ed at the offstream Ridges Basin Reser- voir, ~hich would receive wG~C~ ?urnpac froffi t~a ~n:~~s River ~ea~ Durango, Colo., and conveyed through the Ridges Basin Inlet Conduit. Seccndary storage would be provided at the offstream Southern Ute Reservoir, which. would receive water diverted from the La Plata Ri';~r near the Colorado-New Mexico State line and conveyed in the Southern Ute Inlet Canal. I!'rigatlon water would be provided for full and supplemental sP-!"vice land in Col.Jrado and New ~exico. ',.rater for land in Colorado wou!.d :,e pumped from Ridges Basin Reservoir by the Ridges Basin Pumping ?la~t 3nd conveyed through the Dry Side Canal, except that land coo high to be served from the canal would receive water diver~ed directly Erc~ the La Plata River. SDme water in the canal would be released tD the La Plata River for use downstream during periods of low strea~flow. During periods of high flow, La Plata River water l,;ould be diverted into t~e Dry Side Canal to augment the supply west of the river. !;ater for land in New Mexico W'.:luld be stored i~ Southern Ute Reser'Joir and released to the New Mexico Irrigation Canal. Eleven buried pipe iaterai syst~fil.S ~ould distribute the water to farms in both states, except that the land to be served directly from the La Plata River would continue to be gravity irrigated. Pumping plants to provide pressure rot" five or the lateral systems ~oulc :e ?rovide~ along the Dry Side, Souther~ ~t~ Inlet, and New Mexi~o Irrigation Canals. In Colorado, municipal and industrial water ror Durango would either b~ diverted fr.:J~ the Riege:; Basi~ !r.let Conduit or rel.:ased ::-0::: Ri::ges