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Show project water. Water would be provided for new lands on the west side of Bostwick Park through a two-mile extension of the Bostwick Park lateral. The project would serve 1,040 acres of new land and 5,830 acres presently irrigated but in need of additional water, all located east of Montrose, Colorado. Feasibility investigations on this project were started in 1956. Because adequate water supply records were available for detailed investigation, this project was selected over others in western Colorado. Detailed land classification surveys have been made. The tabulations and office work on the areas classified are not yet complete. Topographic surveys for the proposed enlargement and rehabilitation of the Cimarron Canal are in progress. Completion of the feasibility report will follow completion of the Fruitland Mesa feasibility report in 1958. c. Dolores Project Surplus flows of the Dolores River would be regulated in the potential 328,000 acre-foot McPhee Reservoir on the river channel, and used to supplement present irrigation supplies on 30,500 acres and would provide a full supply for 35,450 acres in the vicinity of Cortez ,and Dove Creek, Colorado. Two outlets through the low divide on the west side of the reservoir would replace existing diversion routes across the Divide that convey the Dolores River water to lands in Montezuma Valley. Existing canals of the Monte-zuma Valley Irrigation Company would be served from both outlets and would be enlarged, if necessary. From one of these outlets the potential Yellow Jacket Canal would extend northwest 24 miles to the potential north and south canals that would serve lands in the Dove Creek area. Topographic surveys of project lands and detailed land classification work undertaken immediately after completion of the status report in May, 1954 are about 50% complete. Preliminary water supply studies have been completed which indicate that not all of the potential land areas can be served. Completion of a feasibility report is scheduled for 1959. d. Animas-LaPlata Project This project would provide supplemental irrigation water for 20,100 acres and a full supply for 45,920 acres of land in southwestern Colorado. It would also provide supplemental water for 15,060 acres and a full supply for 5,540 acres of land in northwestern New Mexico. A 30,000 acre-foot reservoir would be created on the Animas River by a dam at the Teft site 22 miles upstream from Durango, Colorado. From the reservoir, the Animas-LaPlata Diver- -50- |