WSP06677

• File Number: 8220.112
• Description: Dallas Creek Participating Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Gunnison
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 3/1/1975
• Title: News Articles / Press Releases
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: News Article/Press Release

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The Western Colorado projects
office of the Bureau of Reclama. -
tion has received authorizatfon':;
from R. Keith Higginson,com-
mmissioner of Reclamation, to.,.
start construction of the Dallas_
Creek Project in Montrose and"
Ouray Counties.. .
Representatives orthe Bureau
ert Grant .; of Reclamation and the Colorado
Department' of Highways ,exe.
cuted a. contract Thursday for reo
location of a section of U.S, 550 _'
"' around Ridgway Reservoir- bE!"'. _
tween Colona and Ridgway,
Tri Country Water Conservancy
District has set.a ground breaking -
ceremony for 10 a,mc Saturday,
Oct 29, at the Ridgway Dam site,.'
The bureau plans. to award, a -
contract for the actual construc-.-,
and we" 'lion of the -dam in,September;';.
.,,1978.- Construction is to be'com.,
pleted in the fall of 1981. . .
.The Dallas Creek Project wilL'
develop water 'of the. Uncom-<
. . . pahgre .Riverand tributaries for "
municipal and industrial use and
for irrigation:.it will also provide ".
benefits-to recreation, fish, -and
flood controL, ,h ':"'.' . "", _,
The onlY.slorage facility in."
. volved will be Ridgway Reservoir..
" on the Uncompahgre River. In arl~ '
.' dition to regulating the flow. of .
the river this reservoir would also'
store surplus-.f1ows of Dallas
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