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Show Lemon Reservoir received its first full year of recreation use during 1965. Recreation facilities include a boat ramp, picnic areas, and campgrounds. d. Silt Project An improved water supply for about 4,628 acres of partially irrigated land and a full supply for about 2,416 acres of new land will be provided by construction of the Silt Project between Rifle and Elk Creeks in western Colorado. Construction features will include the Rifle Gap Dam which will create a reservoir of 12,600-acre-foot capacity, a pumping plant, headworks and inlet channel, rehabilitation of existing works, and construction of laterals and drains. Construction Activities Construction of the Silt Project was commenced in August 1964 when the contractor began work on Rifle Gap Dam, key feature of the project. The dam will be a 1,700,000-cubic yard earth- and rockfill structure, 120 feet high and 1,575 feet long at the crest. The contractor initiated placement of embankment in the dam in late October 1964. This work has been limited pending completion of features necessary for diversion of the creek through the outlet works tunnel. Diversion is scheduled for Spring of 1966. Good progress has been made on the relocation of State Highway 325 and a county road to take traffic out of the construction area at the bottom of the gap. The State highway will cross the crest of the dam. A contract was awarded on February 11, 1965, for construction of the 8-mile-long Silt Pump Canal which will convey irrigation water to lands on the lower portion of Harvey Mesa. Work on the canal neared the halfway mark by the end of September. Work is also underway on reconstruction of 6 miles of the existing Davie Ditch to provide a full water supply for project lands on Davie Mesa. Award of contract was made on September 7, 1965, for rehabilitation of the existing Grass Valley Canal and construction of Dry Elk Valley Lateral and on September 29 for construction of the Silt Pumping plant. As of September 30, there was no construction activity under these contracts. e. Fryingpan-Arkansas Project The Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, located in central Colorado, involves transmountain diversion to divert approximately 69,000 85 |