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<br />11" <br />C") <br />o <br />N <br /> <br />SUMMARY SHEET <br /> <br />Yellow Jacket Project, Colorado <br />Units 1 and 2 (original studies) (6) <br /> <br />December 1965 <br /> <br />1QCATIPB: Along the White and Yampa River Basins in northwestern <br />Colorado. <br /> <br />FLAB: The multi-purpose project would provide storage for recreation, <br />fishery, municipal and industrial water, and the irrigation of <br />47,570 acres of land including 6,841 acres of supplemental <br />service land and 40,729 acres of full service lands. Principal <br />features of the project are: Lost Fark Reservoir, located on <br />Lost Creek. a tributary of the North Fork of the White River; <br />Thornburgh Reservoir. located on Milk Creek, Ripple Creek Reser- <br />voir, located on the North Fork of the White River; Yellow Jacket <br />Canal. which diverts from the North Fork of the White River and <br />terminates at Thornburgh Reservoir; Josephine Basin Canal, divert- <br />ing from the Yellow Jacket Canal and serving project lands in the <br />Little Beaver, Flag Creek and Josephine Basin areas (during off- <br />peak periods the Josephine Basin'Canal would deliver municipal <br />water at its terminus to private conveyance facilities); Coal <br />Creek Canal diverting from the Yellow Jacket Canal and deliver- <br />ing project water to project lands in the Coal Creek area; and <br />the Axial Canal which diverts from Thornburgh Reservoir and <br />provides project water to the lands in Axial Basin. <br /> <br />COSTS: Construction costs (costs are reconnaissance and subject to <br />change) <br /> <br />Reservoirl!, <br />Lost Park ...................................... <br />Thornburgh ..................................... <br />Ripple Creek ................................... <br />Jubb Creek (terminal storage) .................. <br />Canals <br />--.yerlow Jacket .................................. <br />Axial.......................................... <br />Josephine Basin ................................ <br />Coal Creek ..................................... <br />Ute Feeder ..................................... <br />Lost Park Collection ........................... <br />I1es ........................................... <br />Laterals and drains ............................... <br />Total....................................... <br /> <br />$ 2.627.000 <br />2,940,000 <br />5,081,000 <br />600.000 <br /> <br />12.290,000 <br />9.632.000 <br />6.720,000 <br />2,736.000 <br />264.000 <br />964.000 <br />628,000 <br />8.118.000 <br />$52.600,000 <br />