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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />will perform major functions in the fields of water conservation, <br />flood control, recreation and fish and wildlife enhancement. The <br />South Platte Valley is the leading agricultural area of the state of <br />Colorado. The cattle feeding operations carried on in the valley are <br />surpassed by few areas of the united States, if any. The catalyst <br />for the sound agricultural economy which now exists in the valley <br />was the construction of the ColoradO-Big Thompson Project by the <br />Bureau of Reclamation. The history of this project has a direct <br />application to the project being considered here today. <br />Originally conceived almost entirely to furnish water for <br />irrigation purposes, the ColoradO-Big Thompson Project now provides <br />a significant amount of water to a rapidly growing industrial and <br />municipal complex stretching from Boulder to Fort collins. The <br />competition between municipal-industrial uses and agricultural uses <br />will continue to grow at an increasingly accelerated rate. Thousands <br />of acres of farm land have now been incorporated into our municipal <br />and industrial complexes. This situation will apparently continue <br />for the foreseeable future. An attractive feature of the Narrows <br />project is that it will assist in preserving a healthy agricultural <br />economy in an area outside the metropolitan perimeter through the <br />reuse of water which is first diverted for municipal and industrial <br />purposes. <br /> <br />In their natural state, Colorado's streams discharge <br /> <br />-7- <br />