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<br />- ",-- -~.,. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />SUMMARY SHEETS <br /> <br />Animas-La Plata Project <br /> <br />LOCATION <br /> <br />Southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico in the San Juan River <br />Basin of the Upper Colorado River Basin. <br /> <br />PLAN <br /> <br />The Animas-La Plata Project would utilize flows of the Animas and <br />La Plata Rivers for irrigation and municipal and industrial use. It <br />would also provide fish and wildlife measures, recreation facilities, a <br />cultural resources program, and area redevelopment. Service would be <br />provided to the La Plata Water Conservancy District in Colorado; the La <br />Plata Conservancy District and the cities of Aztec, Bloomfield, and <br />Farmington in New Mexico; the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe; the Southern <br />Ute Indian Tribe; and the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority. <br /> <br />Primary storage would be provided at the offstream Ridges Bas in Reser- <br />voir, which would receive water pumped from the Animas River near <br />Durango, Colo., and conveyed through the Ridges Basin Inlet Conduit. <br />Secondary storage would be provided at the offstream Southern Ute <br />Reservoir, which would receive water diverted from the La Plata River <br />near the Colorado-New Mexico State line and conveyed in the Southern Ute <br />Inlet Canal. <br /> <br />Irrigation water would be provided for full and supplemental service <br />land in Colorado and New Mexico. Water for land in Colorado would be <br />pumped from Ridges Basin Reservoir by the Ridges Basin Pumping Plant and <br />conveyed through the Dry Side Canal, except that land too high to be <br />served from the canal would receive water diverted directly from the La <br />Plata River. Some water in the canal would be released to the La Plata <br />River for use downstream during periods of low streamflow. During <br />periods of high flow, La Plata River water would be diverted into the <br />Dry Side Canal to augment the supply west of the river. Water for land <br />in New Mexico would be stored in Southern Ute Reservoir and released to <br />the New Mexico Irrigation Canal. Eleven buried ripe lateral systems <br />would distribute the water to farms in both states, except that the land <br />to be served directly from the La Plata River would continue to be <br />gravity irrigated. Pumping plants to provide pressure for five of the <br />lateral systems would be provided along the Dry Side, Southern Ute <br />Inlet, and New Mexico Irrigation Canals. <br /> <br />In Colorado, municipal and industrial water for Durango would eith~r be <br />diverted from the Ridges Basin Inlet Conduit or released from Ridges <br />