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Show Smith Fork Participating Project, Colorado The Crawford Dam on Iron Creek in west-central Colorado is 88 percent completed at June 30, 1962. Construction is underway on the other project features including the Smith Fork diversion dam which will divert surplus flows from the Smith Fork, a 2%-mile feeder canal to carry the surplus flow from the Smith Fork to the reservoir, and a new 6.6-mile Aspen Canal to deliver the water to the farmlands in the project area. Work on these features is estimated 81 percent complete. Initial storage of water is scheduled to begin in the fall of 1962, and irrigation water will be available in limited amounts during the 1963 irrigation season. Advance Planning Activities Definite plan reports on the Silt participating project in Colorado, the Emery County participating project in Utah, and the economic justification report on Crystal Dam, reservoir, and powerplant of the Curecanti unit were completed during the year. Advance planning studies continued on the central Utah project and in Wyoming on the Lyman project. Quality of water studies were continued in the Upper Colorado River Basin as authorized by law. Fish and Wildlife Facilities Fishery rehabilitation programs were initiated on the San Juan and Green Rivers prior to closure of the Navajo and Flaming Gorge Dams. The rough-fish eradication program for approximately 67 miles of the San Juan River and its tributaries was completed in September 1961 in cooperation with both the Colorado and New Mexico fish and game departments. Work was begun under a $150,000 contract with the Utah and Wyoming fish and game departments for a similar program in a 445-mile stretch of the Green River and its tributaries. These measures are intended to assure improved populations of game fish in the rivers and to establish an optimum reservoir fishery during the initial years of impoundment. A contract was awarded in June for the installation of a pump at the Stewart Lake State Waterfowl Refuge in Utah to replace the source of water impaired by project operations. Planning activities for future facilities, including appraisal of 91 |