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Show part of the water that would be used under the system above described is presently used under Uncompahgre River diversions, replacement water would be provided from Ramshorn Reservoir that would be constructed on Cow Creek. I. Yellow Jacket Project The Yellow Jacket Project would provide irrigation water for 36,907 acres of new land and for 4,204 acres that now lack a full irrigation supply. Surplus flows of White River would be stored in Trappers Lake, 23,600 acre-feet capacity, formed by a dam 65 feet high above the present natural lake. Releases from this reservoir would flow 18 miles in White River to the head of the potential Yellow Jacket Canal. The canal would also receive water from Ute Creek, a White River tributary, through a short feeder canal. The Yellow Jacket Canal, 31.2 miles long, would convey water to the Yellow Jacket area and then through Yellow Jacket Pass to the Milk Creek drainage. During the irrigation season releases would be made to Little Beaver and Coal Creeks and to lands between the two creeks. Most of the water released to Little Beaver Creek would be diverted into the potential Josephine Basin Canal, 45.4 miles long, and conveyed to lands on the south side of the Little Beaver drainage and to lands in the Josephine Basin area. The remainder of the releases to Little Beaver Creek would be diverted for use on lands along the stream channel. Some of the water released to Coal Creek would be used on lands adjoining the stream and the remainder would be diverted into the potential 12-mile long Coal Creek Canal and conveyed to lands west of Coal Creek. Water delivered by the Yellow Jacket Canal to Milk Creek would be regulated along with flows of the creek at the potential Thornburgh Reservoir, 31,500 acre-feet capacity, formed by a dam 118 feet high. Water from the reservoir would be released to the 38-mile Axial Basin Canal and conveyed to lands along the southern side of the Axial Basin area east of Milk Creek. UTAH a. Gooseberry Project The Gooseberry Project would divert water from Gooseberry Creek in the Colorado River Basin to improve the irrigation supply for 16,400 acres of land in the Bonneville Basin in Sanpete County -61- |