Project scope
The integrated project includes Ridges Basin Dam and Lake Nighthorse, the Durango Pumping Plant and Ridges Basin Inlet Conduit, the Navajo Nation Municipal Pipeline, and Basin Creek drop structures/improvements. The source describes the pipeline as the project's fourth major component and records related construction and operations as project features; it does not establish that every connection or activity was complete.
Reported status and procurement
- Reported development
The selected project was described as focused on providing the Colorado Ute Tribes and others an assured water supply. Lake Nighthorse began filling in 2009 and first filled in 2011; the history reports storage of 123,541 acre-feet, and the overview gives a maximum water-surface elevation of 6,882 feet corresponding to that storage. These statements do not specify present storage or operating conditions.
- Procurement availability
- Unknown / not established
A source report alone does not establish current progress or an open buying window.
Project summary
The Bureau of Reclamation entry identifies the Animas-La Plata Project and places it in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. It describes a project including Ridges Basin Dam and the Inlet Conduit, Durango Pumping Plant, Navajo Nation Municipal Pipeline, and Basin Creek improvements. Its history records general construction of the dam, conduit, plant, and appurtenant structures as complete in 2008; it reports pipeline pipe laying complete in July 2012, connections still in progress in 2013, and Colorado features transferred to operation and maintenance in March 2013. These are historical entries, not confirmation of present status.
Evidence limits and unknowns
The visible page provides no publication date; its latest dated operational-status entry is March 2013.
Current construction, operations, storage, distribution connections, and procurement status are not established; the 2013 entry says work on connections continued.
The current recreation-management entity, facilities, and public-access status are not established; the 2012 entry describes access as conditional on identifying a management entity and constructing facilities.
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