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Show Castle Creek below the reservoir. The service area would include 6,200 acres of new land and 10,710 acres now irrigated with an inadequate supply. j. Grand Mesa Project The Grand Mesa Project would provide irrigation water to 11,070 acres of new land and 14,230 acres of irrigated land in need of supplemental water. The lands are located on the south slope of Grand Mesa in western Colorado between Leroux Creek #nd Dirty George Creek. Lands within the service areas of the Paonia and Fruit Growers Extension Projects are not included. The principal project storage would be at the Paonia Reservoir site on Muddy Creek. Should that site be developed to a capacity of 21,000 acre-feet for the Paonia Project, enlargement to a total capacity of 85,000 acre-feet would be made for the Grand Mesa Project. A 31/2-mile feeder canal would divert additional water to the reservoir from Anthracite Creek. Cedaredge Canal would extend from the Paonia Reservoir westerly 67 miles to serve project lands. The Redlands Mesa pumping plant to be constructed on the canal near the Leroux Creek crossing would deliver water to lands above the canal in the Redlands Mesa area. The potential 4,000 acre-foot Gorsuch Reservoir would be located at the point where the Cedar-edge Canal crosses Currant Creek and would regulate the flows of both for use on lands served by the lower 12 miles of the canal. Ic. Dallas Creek Project Surplus flows of Uncompahgre River and two of its tributaries, Dallas Creek and Cow Creek, would be utilized to provide irrigation water to 15,750 acres of new land and 6,190 acres partially irrigated located in the vicinity of Ridgway and Colona, Colorado. The 5,000 acre-foot Willow Swamp Reservoir would be constructed on East Dallas Creek and the 11,200 acre-foot Dallas Divide Reservoir would be constructed on Pleasant Valley Creek, a tributary of Dallas Creek. The Dallas Feeder Canal would head on Beaver Creek, also a tributary of Dallas Creek, and would extend four miles to Willow Swamp Reservoir. A lower section of the canal would head ,at Willow Swamp Reservoir and extend 16 miles to Dallas Divide Reservoir, intercepting flows of streams along its course. The 19-mile Log Hill Mesa Canal would extend from Dallas Divide Reservoir to lands on Log Hill Mesa. Water from Willow Swamp Reservoir would be largely released to East Dallas Creek to supply existing canals diverting downstream, but some of the water would be released through the Dallas Feeder Canal to Willow Swamp Reservoir. Since -60- |
