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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />003321 <br /> <br />CHAPTER II <br /> <br />LAND AND WATER RESOURCES <br /> <br />McDonald. No provision has been made to relinquish a:n.y of the old decrees <br />from Big and Little Pagosa Creeks. <br /> <br />It is assumed that, in order to make the O'Neal Park project possible, <br />the owners of the ditches discussed in the preceding paragraph would be <br />willing to limit their combined water rights to 25 second-feet which amounts <br />to 4.5 acre-feet per acre for 1,400 acres. It was :further assumed for the <br />purposes of this reconnaisea:n.ce appraisal that annual diversions to the <br />ditches would be limited as shown below. <br /> <br />May 16 to 31 <br />June <br />July <br />August <br />September <br />Total <br /> <br />Second- <br />feet <br />20 <br />25 <br />25 <br />25 <br />20 <br /> <br />Acre- <br />feet <br />tiOO <br />1,500 <br />1,500 <br />1,500 <br />1,200 <br />0,300 <br /> <br />During a :few drougJlt periods the Piedra. Falls ditch diverted all the <br />available flow at its points of diversion. TIle inflow below these points, <br />however, was su:ff'1cient to satisfy the requirements of the estimated <br />1,000 acres of land irrigated fran the Piedra River below tbe vicinity of <br />U. S. Highway 160. In the operation studies therefore no provision was <br />made to bypass ..ater at the points of project diversion for these lower <br />Piedra River Valley lands. <br /> <br />11 <br />