WSP10955

• File Number: 8441.400
• Description: The Colorado Big Thompson Project - Reports
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 1/1/1947
• Title: Duplication of Electric Transmission Lines a Waste of Public Funds
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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necessary to <<onneet the project to the Company's system. The Company is
. willing .to build these Hnes, thus pu;rchas!ng the power at the sourjZe ot generation.
The,(lost would be approximately $1,000.000 and the projeet would be relieved
of this expenditure 0/ taxpayers' money. .

The overlay map ind1~ates in red the tranpmiss!on lines ineorporated in
the Bureau request tor funds from Congres.s tor the Colorado-Big Thompson
Project for the fiseal year 19413. It i~ ~st from these map.s that the Bureau
prop!lses to completely duplV:ate the COIl).pa:ny's system in this area where ample
facilities exist. and where anyhture $edswill be p:romptly met by the Company.

The speci1ie plans. tor th~ COlorado-Big Thompson Project were eon-
tained in Senate Do.cument No. 8.0 .presented to t~ 75thCQIlgress, 1st Bessiou,
and efrt;itled, "Colorado-Big Thomps.on Projeet - SY1l.opsisot ~port on Colorado..
Big 11hompson Projelrt~ Plan.o! Development and Cost EStin).ate Prepared by the
BureaU of Redamatiolt, Department of Interisr," These speeifilil'plal'lS werti!
approved and $900,000 trtitial eonstrul!:tion tundswere apPropriated in 19S7 by
Publi/i Law 249 (75th Congress, 1st Seuio~ 50 Stat, 595) as tsllows:

"Colorado~Big Thompson Proje!!:t~ Colorado:
For ~onstruction in aeeordanee with the plan
described in Senate DoeuILl.ent nu:mbe~ed 80",";

.and th~rea!ter on May 9>> 1938, (52. stat. 321) Congress appropriated $1.250,flOO
provid,ing that "not less than III 600,000 otthe sum appropriated shall be used in
the eoftstruetion of Green Mountain Reservoir in a~il:ordanee with the plans set
forth in said Senate DOCument No, 80,"
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Senate Document No, 80 limited all transmis.sion lines therein to 192
eireuit, mUes at a eost ot III 2.281, ODD, Fifty"'fourCl'i~uit mUes of this 192 miles.
were f<<)r the purpose of. eonne~ting the power generating leatures of the proje~
to the YalILl.ont Plant of the Puhlle Servil!eCompany .ofColorado(therein desig-
nated as the market). andtheve~der waS tQl'loMEict tl.w,sey:.ral plants ot the
projept, Congress has not. autlj.Qrl,$;.edany,~e ~n tpts Qrig~ plan as tar as
transILl.lss!on lines are eoneerned, in the area shown' on t.\1e map.
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. In .eom:rast, and to herein emphasize the Bureart's more re,eent tremen-
dous expansion and enlargement plans, the Bureart in 1947, in its req1iest for
Colorado-Big Thompson Projeqt tunds for the fiscal year 1948, listed and
proposed eonstruetion of 784 more mUes 01 transmission lines at an Ltltimate

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