WSP07034

• File Number: 8200.766
• Description: Gunnison River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Gunnison
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 8/21/1992
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Paonia Project-Fire Mountain Canal Fact Sheet - Gunnison River Basin Planning Model
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Data

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point of crossing of Leroux Ck. by the Fire Mountain Canal, with replacement
of that portion previously delivered below the canal by project supply from
the North Fork mainstem and paonia Reservoir storage. (Principal users of
exchaange water are located in the Redlands Mesa area.)

Although the Overland DitCh and
participant in the paonia Project,
majority of land served by Overland.

Reservoir company (Overland) is not a
the Redlands Mesa area contains the

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References:

Contract No. 14-06-400-4650:
of Reclamation, paonia Project,
Contract ( See Attachment )

Small Reclamation Projects Application Report for the Overland Ditch and
Reservoir Company, February 1969.

United states Department of the Interior, Bureau
Supplemental Operation and Water Distribution

Paonia Project, Colorado, Definite Plan Report, May 1957, Appendix A, Water
Supply/Project Lands and Drainage

Water and Power Resources Service project Data, 1981, USDI,USBR

b.)

Service areas and shareholder lists:
i.) North Fork Water Conservancy District
ii.) Fire Mountain Canal and Reservoir company
iii.) Ragged Mountain Water Users Association
iv.) Leroux Ck. Water Users Association
v.) Overland Ditch and Reservoir Company

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(See Attachment D)
(See Attachment E)
(See Attachment D)
(?)

c.) Explanation of reservoir accounting, rights for
carryover, categories of shareholders, order in
which accounts are filled. (?)

d.) Describe water management under 1977 conditions.
Reservoir did not fill; available supplies stored during

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