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APPENDIX IV

Harold Westesen Testimony for the Dallas Creek Project

Montrose Daily Press 3/29/77

Reprinted with permission of Montrose Daily Press © 1977

(Editor’s Note: The following is the complete text of testimony in favor of the 1978 fiscal year funding for the Dallas Creek Project in the amount of $12,175,000, submitted by Harold Westesen, President of the Board of Directors of the Tri-County Water Conservancy District, at hearings of the Public Works Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations in Washington D.C. We feel this is of interest to our readers.)

Testimony before the Public Works Subcommittee
Of the Senate Committee on Appropriations
THE DALLAS CREEK PROJECT
April 1, 1977
Request for Appropriations of $12,175,000

 

The Dallas Creek Project is located in West-Central Colorado in the Uncompahgre River watershed of the upper Colorado River Basin. The project area is encompassed by the boundaries of the Tri-County Water Conservancy District and consists of approximately 1,360 mi.² within the Counties of Ouray, Montrose, and Delta, Colorado.

        The Uncompahgre River runs northward in the project area from its headwaters in the San Juan Mountain Range to its confluence with the Gunnison River near the City of Delta, Colorado.

        A project has been under consideration by residents of the area for many decades and on April 11, 1966, investigation of the Dallas Creek Project was authorized by the Colorado River Storage Act, Public Law 84 – 485. The feasibility study was completed and the project was authorized for construction by Congress through the Colorado River Basin Project Act of September 30, 1968, Public Law 90 – 537.

        The project will regulate flows of the Uncompahgre River and its tributaries to make water available for domestic (municipal and rural), industrial and irrigation uses. It will create new recreational opportunities, benefit fisheries, and provide flood and silt control. Benefits would also result, incidentally, from highway improvements.

 

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