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Show be provided by construction of the Silt Project between Rifle and Elk Creeks in west-central 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. Investigation Activities Detailed land classification and drainage surveys are almost completed. Questions of design for the dam at Rifle Gap are delaying other phases of the investigations and requiring further geologic studies and explorations. A number of drainage and design problems are being studied. The Conservancy District to contract with the Federal Government for repayment of the project has been organized. The definite plan report is scheduled for completion about October, 1959. 2. Authorized New Mexico Participating Projects 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 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. The definite plan report was completed in September, 1958 and is now waiting final approval in Washington. A Conservancy District has been organized to contract with the United States for repayment of the project. If the definite plan report receives final approval of the interested agencies of the executive branch of the Federal Government in sufficient time, Congressional Appropriation Committees will be requested to provide funds for initiating construction during fiscal 1960. 3. Authorized Utah Participating Projects a. Central Utah Project (Initial Phase) The Central Utah Project (initial phase) would intercept streams draining the southern slope of the Uinta Mountains in the Colorado River Basin and would convey the water by gravity flow through the 38 |