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<br />. <br /> <br />.-f <br />en <br />C'1 <br />C\I <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />UNITED STATES <br />DEPARTMSI',T OF THE INTERIOR <br />BUREAU OF RECLI'.~jci :;:UN <br />PEGION 5 <br />AMARIL.LO, TE::AS <br /> <br />November 18, 1954 <br /> <br />To: COmR~ssiuner. B'w'eau ~f Reclamation <br /> <br />From: Acting Regicnal Dire~tor <br /> <br />Subject: Plan fer McMille~ Delta Water Salvage Char~el,"~ecos River <br />Basin, New MExico. <br /> <br />INTRWUCTION <br /> <br />Tra:--!~:n;,~~'!',~.l <br />-...-..-.---... <br /> <br />This repel!-t p.'e3eI'ts findings with respect to a plan advanced <br />by the Pecos Rive:- Conunission fer construction of a channel t~rough the <br />delta area upstream frem the existing H~~]j.nal1 Dam on the PecoS River in <br />Ne;; Ma:tic:l to provide for tt,e salvage of an ai1~.Lal n.ve."age "f about <br />24, /,yO e.(::re~:ee1, c.f water present:i.y being lC5t tl:1rcl.!gh nonbenefid,al con- <br />st:.::Jptiv€ 1.'<se, The report finds '~he e5tima1;ed cost of constl',-,,;V_on to <br />total about r~2,161..000 and of 0pe:cr.t<,.or, and ma),ntenance about, $52,8;:'0 <br />an.iUE.IJ.j-' It The berJgf:;.~s cf :1..:'r:.g:-."tJ:.cm use cf t;18 58.1 vag8d water are <br />e:;timaT,ed t'e "i:,.~t,e.l e.b~'.ut $9Y\~>')} i~'1'i11al:i.y'. It is recomrllended that the <br />report be t-ransm;':.+,0d to the Pecos H.i.ver Commission as fulfillment of <br />the BCl'ea'l' s ag:-eement to 1"e;:>ol't cn a water saJ.vage channel through the <br />MeNiHan Delta area, <br /> <br />Authority for Report <br />- ....------- <br /> <br />This report has been prepared under the authority of the <br />Federal Rec~amation Laws (Act of June 17, 19021 22 Stat. 388 and acts <br />amendatc~y thereof or supplementary thereto). <br /> <br />!!iSt~-2.!.J2Y<;.~!dB.~~ <br /> <br />The original investigations of the area by the Reclamaticm <br />Service were made prior to its taking over the CarlS bad Project in 1906. <br />Subseq~ent investigations have been dire~ted largely toward improvement <br />of the water sl:.pply t:lrough provision of storage to replace that lost <br />because of sedir:lent d8positi.on in i"lcMillan Reservoir, As a result of the, <br />investigations l1c~1ill2-n Reservoir has been enlarged twice, and Alamogordo <br />Reservoir has been cc~structed, Water shortages, occurring since the com- <br />pletion of P.lamogordo Reservoir in 1938, resulted in investigation of <br />means by which water being lost through nonbeneficial use in the ~bMillan <br />Reservoir Delta could be salvaged. A plan for a by~pass channel to carry <br />the low flows of the river and the Alamogordo Reservoir irrigation <br /> <br />Rev. 12..3-54 <br /> <br />1 <br />