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Show COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO Animas - La Plata Project The Animas-La Plata Project would develop flows of the Animas and La Plata Rivers for irrigation, municipal and industrial use, recreation, and fish and wildlife conservation. Animas River water would be regulated at the Howardsville Reservoir. The stored water would be released to the river and most of it, together with natural inflows to the river, would be diverted 23 miles downstream and conveyed in the Animas Diversion Canal to the La Plata River Basin. The remainder would be diverted from the Animas River for municipal use at Durango, Colorado, and Aztec and Farmington, New Mexico. Part of the Animas River water would replace present diversions to the city of Durango from the Florida River, permitting the replaced water to add to the supply for the Florida Project. Water delivered to the La Plata River Basin and unused flows of the La Plata River would be regulated in the offstream Hay Gulch, Three Buttes, and Ute Meadow Reservoirs and distributed by private and project works for irrigation and anticipated industrial uses associated with the areas' extensive coal fields. A total of 72,120 acres1 would be irrigated, of which about 23 percent is in New Mexico and 77 percent in Colorado. The lands include 7,520 acres in Indian ownership. The project would provide 76,200 acre-feet of water annually for municipal and industrial use. Animas - La Plata Project Dams Data How- Hay Three Ute Animas ardsville Gulch Buttes Meadow Mountain Dam Type Earth Earth Earth Earth Earth Dam height (feet above streambed) 285 194 158 75 115 and 110 Crest length (feet) 1,300 3,820 2,800 2,200 580 and 1,130 Reservoir capacity (acre feet) 78,000 53,000 38,400 16,500 17,000 COLORADO a. Dallas Creek Project The Dallas Creek Project would develop water of the Uncom-pahgre River and tributaries for irrigation and municipal and industrial use. It also would provide benefits to recreation, fish and wildlife, and flood control. Principal storage would be provided by the 146,500-acre-foot 131 |