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Show 52,000 acre- feet of water pumped onto the bench annually. Monarch Canal and Altonah Reservoir Complex Monarch Canal, with a 90 c. f. s. capacity for most of its length, would deliver intercepted fish bypasses of Uinta and Whiterocks Rivers amounting to 5,300 and 2,400 acre- feet annually to Altonah Reservoir. It would consist of 29.5 miles of earth lined canal, 1.5 miles of bench flume, and 0.4 mile of siphon. Altonah Reservoir would have an active capacity of 30,000 acre- feet and would store and regulate the fish bypasses to meet an irrigation pattern. The reservoir would inundate 330 acres of irrigated farmland, 260 acres of irrigated pasture, and 165 acres of grazing lands covered by scattered juniper, cedar, and sagebrush. The yield of the reservoir would be 11,000 acre- feet of water annually. It would serve irrigation water to presently irrigated lands in exchange for water from Upalco Unit to serve 1,720 acres of Group 5 Indian land on Bluebell Bench, 440 acres in the Payne area, and 1,070 acres in Little Valley. Altamont Canal would have a 70- second- foot capacity and would be 7.8 miles in length and earth lined. It would deliver reservoir releases to presently irrigated lands near Altamont. Whiterocks Reservoir Enlargement Spills of Whiterocks Res ervoir that would be expected to occur in Uintah Unit operation would be stored and regulated in a 25,000- acre- foot enlargement under the Ute Indian Unit. An annual yield of 4,900 acre- feet of irrigation water would be used to serve 1,513 acres of Group 5 Indian land in the Deep Creek area. The 11- mile- long U. S. Mosby Canal, with a 40- to 25- second- foot capacity, would deliver reservoir releases to Unit lands. A new diversion dam on Whiterocks River would be required at the U. S. Mosby Canal heading. The additional 410 acres of National Forest land which would be inundated by the reservoir enlargement is presently covered by aspen, conifer, and mountain brush. The terrain along the U. S. Mosby 437 |