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<br />f <br />I <br />I, <br />I~ <br /> <br />00 <br />~ The Seedskadee project is in southwestern Wyoming along the <br /> <br />reen River. Fontenel1e Dam has been completed but the irrigation <br /> <br />orks have not been started. <br /> <br />The Silt project is located in west-central <br /> <br />Colorado between <br />A-- <br />~ reservoir <br /> <br />if1e and Elk Creeks. The project include a dam, <br /> <br />pumping system, rehabilitation of cxisting canal, and construction of <br />i <br />somc now laterals and drains. <br /> <br />The Smith Fork project is located in west-central Colorado along <br /> <br />smith Fork, a tributary of the Gunnison River. The project works <br /> <br />include a dam and reservoir}diversion dam, canals, and laterals. <br /> <br />ADDITION^L PARTICIPATING PROJEC?S <br /> <br />In 1962, Congress authorized the San Juan-Chama project <br /> <br />and <br />. <br />These <br /> <br />Navajo Indian irrigation project as participating projects. <br />, ' -/'-.. <J.r:: <br />projects were designed to enable New Nexico tb. put ~ a major <br /> <br />of its water entitlement under the Upper Colorado River Basin <br /> <br />portion <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Com-. <br /> <br />. <br />. .. <br /> <br />pact. As authorized, the Navajo project provided for the irrig(l.tion ,.' <br />of about 110,000 acres of land requiring about, 508,000 acre-feet <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />of water annually from the San Juan River.. The San Juan~Chama <br /> <br />project diverts about 110,000 acre-feet of water out of the Colorado <br /> <br />River Basin to the Rio Grande River Basin for,irrigation and muni- <br /> <br />cipal purposes. <br /> <br />In 1964, Congress authorized the Savery-Pot Hook, Bostwick <br /> <br />- <br />Park, and Fruitland l'lesa projects in the state of Colorado as <br />additional participating projects. These projects are primarily <br />for irrigation)supplying water to about.64,ocio acres of land. <br /> <br />17 <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />.~ <br /> <br />, <br />li.c:;liii <br />