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<br />.";t)". <br />~':: <br />. -+~ <br />:~. <br /> <br />t) <br /> <br />.".,) <br /> <br />E3YNOPSIS <br /> <br />Florida hiveI' is the principal tributury of Animl'ls River, <br /> <br />which it joins in Colorado from the east five miles north of the Colorado- <br /> <br />New Mexico State line. <br /> <br />A total of 26,3L,O acres, in rounded figures, is irri~._ted or <br /> <br />irrigable f;rom Florida River, extending along its course from the mouth <br /> <br />at elevation 6,000 to elevation 8,200, 40 miles upstream, where the river <br /> <br />emerges from the San Juun Mountains in a nurrow grc.nite cE,nyon, Of this <br /> <br />area, 3,120 !'lcres east of Florida fdver is supplied from Salt Creek and <br /> <br />Pine B-i Vel', T.his laud ~,ill continue to be so served. Of the 23,220 <br /> <br />acres rem~ining, 3,750 acres are ~wn the inmlediate riVer valley lU1d 19,470 <br /> <br />acres are on Flo~ida Mesa, which begins five miles southeast of Durango <br /> <br />and extends southeast. It is one of the lurgest, most cmnpact bodies <br /> <br />of lemd in San Ju,..n Basin and thO! most fertile. The ar",,-, to receive <br /> <br />storud water is :<0,000 aCr8$, of which 11,400 acres .ere noVi irrigated. <br /> <br />The pres2nt canals anci. ditches, which may need to be enlarged <br /> <br />or GXte~deCl ill some minor cases, should generc.lly be adequate for the <br /> <br />project. hork required would be within the: ability of the irrigators <br /> <br />to do. The project deals only .iith supplemental storage. <br /> <br />The most attractive reservoir site found is the Lemon site, <br /> <br />on Florida River, 12 miles above Florida MeSee. The selected reservoir <br /> <br />c<:"p;;.Gi ty. of 23,300 (wre-feet would have supplied the supplemental water <br /> <br />needed for an adequ:,te water supply with a diversion of 3.15 acre feet <br /> <br />per acre, ".nnue,lly, ciuring the period from 1927 to 1936, with numinal <br /> <br />shortages in 1928 and 1931 and a serious shortage only in the oxtremo <br /> <br />drouth year of 1934, amounting to about 40% of' th.:: total demand. The <br /> <br />I <br />