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Show mental water supply to 3,370 acres of inadequately irrigated land in Colorado and 9,975 acres in Wyoming. Advance Planning Advance planning funds were made available this fiscal year so that photogrammetric mapping could be completed and field work could be initiated on land classification and drainage. 3. NEW MEXICO a. Hammond Project The Hammond Project, located in northwestern New Mexico, is a completed project. Operated and maintained by the Bureau of Reclamation through the 1965 irrigation season, the project supplied water to project lands on a rental basis. The project works consist of the Hammond Diversion Dam on the San Juan River, the main gravity canal, a hydraulic turbine-driven pumping plant, three main laterals, and distribution laterals. Drainage facilities are being constructed as the need develops. After project canals were placed in operation, several reaches of canal subsided and structures settled out of line. Constant surveillance and emergency repairs have been underway as needed to keep water in the canals and to continue water deliveries to lands which have been planted to crops. The problem is lessening as the ground settles. The project will provide irrigation water for 3,900 acres, of which approximately 2,150 acres are now irrigated. The project lands are divided into 41 farms. b. Navajo Indian Irrigation Project The Navajo Indian Irrigation Project was authorized by the Congress for construction by enactment of P. L. 87-483, approved by the President on June 13, 1962. It is located in northwestern New Mexico along the south side of the San Juan River in the Farmington-Shiprock area. When completed the project will irrigate 110,630 acres of new land on the present and extended Navajo Indian Reservation. Although this project is directly dependent upon the already constructed Navajo Dam and reservoir, the Colorado River Storage Project Act stipulates that irrigation costs that will be beyond the capability of the Indian irrigators to repay shall be nonreim- 88 |