WSP07166

• File Number: 8509
• Description: San Luis Valley
• State: CO
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 8/1/1941
• Title: History of the Irrigation from the Costilla River
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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mentioned. Such ditch had an original capacity, as

will be remembered, of 25 seCond feet. Vnder its

enlargelllent this capacity was increased to 722 seCond

feet and the canal thereafter was known as the

CU1ebra~Eastdale Canal.

In like manner, the intakes of the l':aatdale

ReserVOirs from the Costilla River have greatly in-

creased in size;

ea) The Eastdale NO.1 Canal from 30 seCond teet

to 450 seCOnd; feet; and this canal Was therea:rter known

as the Costilla~Ea$tdale No.1 Ditch;

(b) The Eastdale No. 2 Canal from 20 second feet

to 250 seCond feet; and this canal ?las therearter known

as the Costilla-Eastdale No. 2 Ditch.

The necessary .I'iling lllaps and statements were

filad by the Eastdale company in the of1.'ice of the'

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Colorado State Enginear,on November 28,1908 as tilings,
Nos. 5325 and 5326, respectively, to show the increased
Sizes of thes~ intake canals .1'01' the Eastdale aeservoirs.
The same filings ,sholl' that the two reserVoirs

were to be increased to ~ storage capaCity ,orr
(a) E:astdale no. 1 ReserVoir 3468 acre feet;
(b) Eastdale 110. 2 Reservoir 3041 acre teet;
(c) Total capllci ty of the two reserVoirs 6509 acre

feet.

These filings e:xpress}.y claim the "normal a.'ld
flOod flow" of the Costilla River waters and also claim

the right to a double annual filling 0.1' eacb oJ: the

rese:rvolTs.

(Note; As will be noted hereil\a t:.t:ll r., when
these enlargements ware decreed by the 1935 Colorado

decree, this Claim f~ double filling of the reSeryolrs

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