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Show the Garfield Canal, 39.2 miles long, heading at the "lower end of the West Divide Tunnel. Two reservoirs along the route of the conveyance system would regulate Osgood Reservoir releases in excess of immediate irrigation needs as well as surplus flows on the streams on which the two reservoirs are located. These are the Kendig Reservoir, 12,000 acre-feet capacity, formed by a dam 168 feet high on West Divide Creek and the West Mamm Creek Reservoir, 6,500 acre-feet capacity, formed by a dam 174 feet high on West Mamm Creek. The project would provide irrigation water to 40,500 acres of new land and 25,110 acres presently irrigated, but in need of supplemental water. The project lands are generally immediately south of the Roaring Fork and the Colorado Rivers and extend from Carbondale west to DeBeque, Colorado. Since the foregoing plan was formulated from reconnaissance study, further attention has been given to alternative means of conveying Osgood Reservoir water to the project area and of including power generation and municipal water as project purposes. A formal report on these modifications has not been prepared. The State of Colorado is planning to have topographic mapping done on part of the area for use in land classification surveys as soon as possible after July 1, 1957. The Bureau of Reclamation is planning to award a contract in July, 1957 for the topographic mapping of the rest of the area. L San Migitei Project Surplus flows in the San Miguel River would be controlled by the Saltado Reservoir, 53,000 acre-feet capacity, formed by a dam 282 feet high above the streambed at a point about eight miles southeast of Norwood, Colorado. Released reservoir water would flow successively in the Saltado and Norwood Tunnels having a combined length of 8.8 miles and extending to a point near Norwood, thence in the Main Canal extending 45.5 miles southwesterly, to project lands. The Gypsum Valley Lateral would branch from the Main Canal and would serve lands in Gypsum Valley. The Stone Cabin Dam and Reservoir, 12,200 acre-feet capacity, would be constructed on the East Fork of Dry Creek to regulate the return flows from part of the project lands as well as some direct diversions from the San Miguel River conveyed to the reservoir through the Main Canal. The East Paradox Canal and lateral system would divert water from the East Fork of Dry Creek below the Stone Cabin Reservoir to serve lands in East -52- |
