WSP05964

• File Number: 8220.115.J
• Description: Florida Project
• State: CO
• Basin: San Juan/Dolores
• Water Division: 7
• Date: 9/1/1939
• Author: USDOI-BOR
• Title: Florida Project Colorado - Project Investigations Report No. 25
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Project Area
The total gross area of irrigated land and arable non-

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irrigated land on Florida River is as follows:

Unit: acres

:Irri-
: gated
: Land

Arable Land
:Class l:Class 2:

Location
Area below gaging station:
Florida Mesa :11,105:
River Valley : 2,172:
Subtotal :13,277:
Area above gaging station: :
River Valley only* 947:
Total irrigable from Florida River: 14, 224:
Area east of Florida River on
Salt Creek

910

7,452
600
8,052

910

910

31
8,083

380 1.564
1.290 9.647
irrigated,

: 1.177:

Total :15.401:
*The reservoir will submerge 294 ~.cres now

Total

19,467
2.772
;22,239

978
23,:217

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3.121
26.338

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Deductions for higmvays, roads, and other non-usable irrigable lands

to the amount of 4% are necessary in order to reflect the net irri-

gable or irrigated arecl..

The lands above the gaging station on Florida River own

principally senior water rights and need no water. The lands on Salt

Creek have been supplied from that stream and will continue to be so

served.

The area to be served would therefore be that p&rt of Flor-

ida Mesa and Florida River valley below the gaging station not sup-

plied from senior rights. The water Co~~issioner's records of diver-

sion for the years 1928 to 1937, inclusive, indicate that the lands

below the gaging station holding the senior 40 second-feet of water
right decrees probably receive sufficient water,excopt in such years

as 1931 and 1934, and art unlikely .to enter the project. The area

which can be adequCltely served therewith is believed to be limited to

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