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<br />, <br /> <br />,,,,,,co, <br />~ - -;<-=-~ <br />< ','c>' <br /> <br />residents. When flows in the La Plata River are high, diversions would <br />be made from the river through the La Plata Diversion Dam to the Dry Side <br />Canal to augment the supply west of the river, Project supplemental <br />service land north of the canal would receive an additional supply of <br />water from the La Plata River. In exchange, project water would be <br />delivered from the canal t~ replace La Plata River water now diverted for <br />use downstream of the canal. Existing laterals and canals would be used <br />to serve this land. Water could also be delivered from the Dry Side <br />Canal to the La Plata River, when needed, for diversion int'o Southern Ute <br />Reservoir downstream. <br /> <br />P <br />t <br /> <br />Project features in the Southern Ute Reservoir aystem, in addi- <br />tion to the reservoir, would be the Southern Ute Diversion Dam and Inlet <br />Canal and the New Mexico Irrigation Canal. The dam would divert natural <br />flows of the La Plata River, wat,er from Ridges Basin Reservoir turned out <br />from the Dry Side Canal, and irrigation return flows from land in <br />Colorado. The water would be conveyed to Southern Ute Reservoir by the <br />Southern Ute Inlet Canal, with a small amount of water being pumped from <br />the canal for irrigat ion of land inmediately north of the Colorado-New <br />Mexico State line. Water in the reservoir would be used to develop the <br />Southern Ute Tribe I s coal resources on the reservation and to irrigate <br />non-Indian project land in New Mexico. Irrigation water would be con- <br />veyed from the outlet works of Southern Ute Dam to this land by the New <br />Mexico Irrigation Canal. <br /> <br />- <br />!~ <br />;, <br /> <br />~~ <br />I' <br />"~ <br />/; <br />* <br />~-: <br /> <br />r';'; <br /> <br />Power to operate project facilities would be transmitted to the <br />area from the Shiprock Substation of the Colorado River Storage Project <br />(CRSP) by a l1S-kilovolt (kV) project transmission line (the Shiprock- <br />Durango Transmission Line), or would be purchased. Project transformers <br />would convert power to operate the project sprinkler pumping plants and <br />the Ridges Basin and Durango Pumping Plants. <br /> <br />~;~i <br />':., <br />..';>; <br />, <br />~ ,~ <br />Ie <br />, <br />j.:i <br />, <br /> <br />A cultural resources program would be undertaken for data <br />recovery, analysis; and publication of information on significant histor- <br />ical and prehistorical resources that would be unavoidably affected. <br />Recreation facilities would be provided at Ridges Basin and Southern Ute <br />Reservoirs. The specific program planned for fish and wildlife includes <br />a fish stocking program at project reservoirs, minimum pools to protect <br />the fishery at the reservoirs, and the acquisition and improvement of <br />land for big game to compensate for the 1088 of wildlife habitat at <br />Ridges Basin and Southern Ute Reservoirs. <br /> <br />~~ <br />7':', <br />~,~ <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />b. Ridges Basin Reservoir System <br /> <br />(l) Design <br /> <br />(a) <br /> <br />Durango Pumping Plant and Ridges Basin Inlet Conduit <br /> <br />would lift water <br />Conduit to Ridges <br /> <br />The Durango Pumping Plant, as explained earlier, <br />from the Animas River through the Ridges Basin Inlet <br />Basin Reservoir (see Figure A-I). The plant would be <br /> <br />A-S <br />