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"'" APPENDIX E State of Texas A., Comments 1. Storage in Colorado adverse to New Mexioo and Texas and would aggravate the water shortage situation. B. Reoommendations 1.' Wagon Wheel Gap dam and reservoir'be disapproved and no further consideration be given tC" its development. Comments by the Federal agenoies were minor critioisms except as they reiterated the comments of t~e states. Because of the oomments reoeived, it was deoided to reevaulate the project to eliminate insofar as possible all valid objeotions. Follow- ing this deoision, various water supply studies were made, based on modifi- oations of Study 6, to determine the optimum plan of development for irrigation and flood oontrol purposes. Production of hydr~leotric power lilas not to be oonsidered. Ihe studies' are sut:marized as follows: Studies 7 .7-A and 7-B , These three studies pertain to the Gerrard site and are for a / 700,000 aore-foot, 500),000 aore-foot, and 300,000 aore-foot reservoir at I, the site. The studies were made to determine the most eoonnmioal sbe for irrigation aDd flood oontrol purposes and to asoertain if this site Ddght not be the better of ' the two sites, Gerrard 'or Wagon ~fueel Gap, at a smaller oapaoity. The waters were routed only to Lobatos; hOwever, Compact status was oomputed. The oriteria for these studies are generally the same as those subsequently desoribed for the final Operation Study 12. No size oonclusions were drawn from these studies because the Garrard site could not oompete with the Wagon Wheel Gap site when dam and reservoir dosts were considered. Studies 8. 9 and 11 These studies considered reservoirs of 300,000, 500,000 and 700,000 aore-foot oapaoities in Wagon Wheel Gap Reservoir and established the optimum irrigation capaoity at the site to be 300,000 aore-feet. Seleotion of the ~apaoity was based on the ~ximum benefits that oould be realized fC'r'the least possible expenditure.. The details of these studies a:t'e'pr~sel'l.ted in Appe.hqii. D -. P~ns 9onsidered." " . _.' , " study l{)' !"- I I, ~, If, , L---. Operation study 10 pertains to the Weminuohe Pass T:ransmountain Diversion. The study' showed that an average of 11,700 .;acre-feet could be Imported ,from the Los Pinos watershed to the Rio Grande. Cost estimates established that the plan was not economically feasible at thilS time. Com- plete data on this development are given in Appelldix D -Plans Considered. E-27 r-/~':":,~;~I " v'~'" -.J ... J- "