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<br />'\THE DENVER POST <br /> <br />. Saturday; AcrU 8.2000 <br /> <br />. . ~. . ..Btftt',.. , <br />~i.., o4:.~,:., .~'( <br /> <br />fARMINGTON- . "-Would cost San Juan <br />COli11tytaxpayers more to 'build a reservoir in <br />northwestern New Mexico than it would for <br />tbelfito pay a share of conslructionin the Ridges <br />Basin south of Durango, Colo., an engineering <br />stullY ""ows. <br />, Tl1ereport, P.led Weclnesday to the San <br />JUan Water COlilmission, estt.mated it would cost <br />"l60 million to $102 million to build a reservoir off <br />theAninlas River in San Juan COub.ty. That com- <br />pareswith an estimated $13.2 million taxpayers <br />wollill pay for part , of the project in the Ridges <br />BaSin as part Qfthe Aninlas-La Plala Project. <br />AIiimll&-La Plata opponents said the commis- <br />sion.should not rule out a local reserv'oir, even if <br />it costs. morethail Aninlas-La Plata, a long-pro- <br />pdSed. project to bring water to northwestern <br />New Mexico anll i.lUthwestern COlorado. <br />