WSP05569

• File Number: 8220.127.J
• Description: Savery-Pot Hook Project
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Water Division: 6
• Date: 8/28/1962
• Author: Paul Rechard
• Title: Savery-Pot Hook Project Water Supply Analysis
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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SAVERY-POT HOOK PROTECT

The Savery-Pot Hook Project as proposed in the U.S. Bureau of

Reclamation Feasibility Report dated June 1959 (Revised 10/12/59) provides

for the construction of two reservoirs for storage and regulation of a portion

of the water supply available to the Little Snake River Area of Colorado and

Wyoming, with canals, laterals, and appurtemmces to put the water on the

land.

The Savery Reservoir would be on Savery Creek in Wyoming and

would have a capacity of 18, 600 acre-feet of which 400 acre-feet would be

dead. The water released from Savery Dam would be carried in Savery Creek

for possible diversion into the proposed Dolan Mesa Canal; for irrigation

along Savery Creek; or to mingle with other waters in the Little Snake River

proper for diversion from that river to existing Canals and to the proposed

West Side Extension, Two Bar, Lily or Deerlodge Canals. The Dolan Mesa

Canal would supply new land in Wyoming only. The West Side, an existing

canal, serving lands in both Wyoming and Colorado would be extended to

serve some new and Bome supplemental lands in Colorado and Wyoming.

The Two Bar, Lily and Deerlodge Canals are entirely in Colorado.

The Pot Hook Reservoir would be on Slater Fork in Colorado and

would have a capacity of 65,000 acre-feet of which 7,000 acre-feet would

be inactive. The Pot Hook Canal would divert directly from the reservoir

by means of a tunnel on the west side. This canal would serve principally

new land, the majority of which would be in Colorado with a small portion