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Animas-La Plata Progect (ALP) By: Virginia Beyale Simply Science History of the ALP Project The Animas-La Plata Project (ALP), situated in La Plata and Montezuma Counties in southwestern Colorado and in San Juan County in northwestern New Mexico, was approved by the Colorado River Basin Project Act of September 30, 1968. It supplied for a multi-purpose project primarily for irrigation and municipal and industrial utilization. Although scheduled for construction, in the early 1980s, negotiations were initiated to accomplish a negotiated settlement of water right claims of the Southern Ute Indian and Ute Mountain Ute Tribes in southwest Colorado. The Colorado Ute Tribes and other parties subsequently signed the Final Settlement Agreement on December 10, 1986. The Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 1988 (Settlement Act) supplied language to implement the Final Settlement Agreement and supplemented the permission of the ALP. The Settlement Act permitted for future expansion of the region and...

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