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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />002335 <br /> <br />ClIAPl'ER I <br /> <br />GENERAL DISCUSSIOm <br /> <br />Lwnberinc <br /> <br />Parts of three llational forests are situated in the project area. In <br />1950 more than 10 million board-feet of timber was cut in the area. This <br />is only about one-half of the possible estimated sustained ~"ield. A creat <br />deal of the lumber cut is for local use, but some is exported to the eastern <br />slope of the Co~tinental Divide in Colorado and to scattered parts of tl~ <br />11ation. <br /> <br />Present Recla~tion Development <br /> <br />About 113,000 acres are non irrii3"ted within the project area. Host <br />of the irrigated lands are alone river or creel~ bottoms and in a fev small <br />areas on benches from 20 to 40 feet above streambeds. Di versions are made <br />thrOU~l numerous community or privately o\rned ditches. Water is stored in <br />numerous small reservoirs with a total capacity of about 14,000 acre-feet, <br />Except for the Still'fater Reservoir on the Upper Yarnpa River built tmder <br />the ;1.P.A. pro(7am, tIle reservoirs were built by small croups of private <br />int~r~sts. TJlere are no transmountain diversions from the area. <br /> <br />Heed for Ftu-ther Development <br /> <br />The Ya~a-\~ite project area needs additional irrigation water for its <br />t.lOus3.l'lds of acres of idle, ,..asted land. Tlle full potential of these lands <br />can never be realized unless additional irriGation water is provided. <br /> <br />Plans must be laid for do~estic water supplies to meet nOl~ future <br />(7mrth and to meet nell demands for municipal and industrial uses '-'hen more <br />of the area's rich mineral resources are commercially developed. Plans <br />also must be fOl~ulated for the developmcnt of favorable hydroelectTic <br />pOtler sites in order that the increasing deLk~nds for electric enerey may be <br />met with the grcatest practicable conservation of fuel resources. <br /> <br />Investications <br /> <br />Previous investigations <br /> <br />Investigations of potential vater resource developments in the Yampa- <br />\!hite project aTea have "ee'l made by private p"-rties, State aGencies, and <br />the Bureau of neclamation. Bureau investiGations led to the private con- <br />struction of the Stilhmter Reservoir in the Upper Yampa Basin. Bureau <br />studies also resulted in the preparation of a proposed report of July 1954 <br />on tl1e Savery-Pot lIool: project in Colorado and Uyoming and in the compila- <br />tion of data on nearl:! all of the potential units outlined in this report. <br /> <br />8 <br />