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Show diverted from the reservoir and carried approximately 150 miles to the Navajo Indian lands. San Juan-Chama Participating Project, Colorado and New Mexico Construction was started on the San Juan-Chama project in south-central Colorado and north-central New Mexico. Work began during the fiscal year on the 12.8 mile Azotea tunnel through the continental divide. Other work consisted of collection of field data for design and construction specifications for the other project features including the Heron No. 4 Dam and Reservoir, the El Vado Dam outlet and for a diversion canal and conduit system. The project will involve the transmountain diversion of western slope water from the San Juan Basin into the eastern slope of the Chama Basin. The initial phase of the project, which is presently authorized, will provide facilities for an average annual transmountain diversion of 110,000 acre-feet of water. Principal users of the water will be the city of Albuquerque and the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District. Seedskadee Participating Project, Wyoming Fontenelle Dam, principal feature of the Seedskadee project, is essentially completed and work on the 10,000-kilowatt powerplant is about one-half complete. A contract was awarded for initial construction work on a development farm. The farm will be built on the Seedskadee project and operated under a cooperative agreement among the University of Wyoming, the Soil Conservation Service, and the Bureau of Reclamation. The purpose of the development farm is to determine and demonstrate the most effective, economic, and best adapted water management practices, crop production, and livestock handling techniques and their relationship to optimum family sized farm units and a project distribution system. Work progressed on the relocation of U. S. Highway 189 (79 percent completed), on reservoir clearing (100 percent completed), and the powerplant and switchyard (53 percent completed). Silt Participating Project, Colorado Funds were appropriated in fiscal year 1964 to begin construction activities on the Silt project. Funds were expended mainly to purchase right-of-way, to collect design data for Rifle Gap Dam and Reservoir and other irrigation facilities, and for the relocation of Colorado State Highway 325. A contract was awarded for construc- 122 |