WSP10999

• File Number: 8221.110.J
• Description: Juniper-Cross Mountain Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Date: 5/14/1982
• Title: The Juniper-Cross Mountain Project: A Preliminary Technical Review of Needs and Alternatives
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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continued slippage of the project, it is unlikely it will ever be

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built. The full 55 Mw should be excluded from Colorado-Ute's

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The Homestake mine project has been suspended indefinitely.

Another project listed in Table 2 which seems dubious is
number 16, an unnamed new uranium mill to begin operation in 1985.21/

Here again, the declining state of the uranium mining industry

makes a new mill very unlikely to be built. No such mill is under

contract--indeed, none of the projects discussed above has con-

tracted with Colorado-Ute for power.

Table 3 tabulates the reductions in Colorado-Ute's forecast

which can be expected due to the delays and cancellations dis-

cussed above. It also shows the effect of deferring Colorado-Ute's

planned Southwest 1 and 2 (and later) power plants by 5-6 years,

as discussed below in the section on coal alternatives. Delaying

Southwest increases loads in the 1991-94 period.

Note that since the projects listed in Table 3 contributed

virtually nothing to Colorado-Ute's 1980 peak (only AMAX existed
in 1980), they are not responsible for the 8.1 percent gap between

Colorado-Ute's 1980 forecast and actual ftemand. Removing them

from Colorado-Ute's forecast at the same time as the 8.1 percent

reduction thus does not constitute double-counting.

B. Colorado-Ute's Capacity Alternatives.
Various alternatives are available to Colorado-Ute. In

comparing them, both preferability and availability must be con-

sidered. Alternatives to Juniper-Cross Mountain such as

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