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Show will be provided by construction of the Silt Project between Rifle and Elk Creeks in western Colorado. Construction features will include the Rifle Gap Reservoir of 10,000 acre-feet capacity, a pumping plant, diversion dam and feeder canal, rehabilitation of existing works and construction of laterals and drains. Advance Planning Advance planning activities continued on the Silt Project during the year. It is anticipated that the Definite Plan Report will be completed in February 1982. e. Pine River Project Extension As originally conceived this project would involve an extension to the existing Pine River Project in Southwestern Colorado and Northwestern New Mexico on Pine River about 20 miles east of Durango, Colorado. A special Bureau of Reclamation report has been transmitted by the Department of the Interior to the Congress and the President showing unfavorable findings and recommending that construction of the $2,280,000 Pine River Project Extension be indefinitely deferred. 2. NEW MEXICO a. Hammond Project The Hammond Project is located in Northwestern New Mexico along the south bank of the San Juan River and opposite the towns of Blanco, Bloomfield, and Farmington. The project will provide irrigation water for 3,900 acres, of which 3,180 acres are not irrigated. The remaining 720 acres are now irrigated by pumping water from the San Juan River. The pumps will be abandoned when project water becomes available. The new lands will be divided into 20 to 30 full-time, family-sized farms. The project works will consist of the Hammond Diversion Dam on the San Juan River, the main gravity canal, a hydraulic-turbine driven pumping plant, three main laterals, distribution laterals, and a drainage system. Construction Activities The Hammond Diversion Dam and the upper sections of the canal are about 65 per cent complete. The pumping plant and distribution system are 38 per cent and 25 per cent complete respec- 61 |