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002055 . . QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORT to THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST INTER-AGENCY COMMITTEE from THE STATE OF COLORADO September, October, November - 1957 Late in September, the Colorado Water Conservation Board placed the Juniper Project high on the priority list of Partici- pating Projects to be constructed in Colorado as a part of the Upper Colorado River Storage and Participating Projects authorized by Congress. The present plans for the Juniper Project envision a reservoir on the Yampa River with a capacity of 850,000 acre feet to serve about 33,000 acres of land in Colorado and over 68,000 acres in Utah. It is possible that the plans may be revised to include power production as one of the major project purposes. The Water Conservation Board also took action in October to make available a sum of $35,000 to the Bureau of Reclamation to accelerate the completion of a feasibility report on the Curecanti Project. The Curecanti Project plans are for several dams on the Gunnison River, tributary to the Colorado River, for production of hydro-electric power as a part of the Upper Colorado River Storage Project. Work has been substantially completed on an aerial photo- graphy and topographic mapping contract covering an area of 42,000 acres as part of the lands to be served by the proposed West Divide Project on tributaries of the Colorado River in the vicinity of Rifle, Colorado. This work is being financed by the State of Colo- rado to facilitate the report on the project by the Bureau of Recla- mation. The State Board of Agriculture, at a meeting early in September, approved for planning under the Small Watershed Protec- tion Projects, the application on the Blue River Project, a tribu- tary to the Colorado River, and the 4 mile-3 mile Creeks Project; tributaries to the Roaring Fork which in turn is tributary to the Colorado River near Glenwood Springs. The administrator for the S.C.S. in Washington approved the latter for detailed planning. ~ k