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<br />BUREAU OF RECL.~,l^TION <br />NEWS CLIPS <br />THE LINCOLN STAR <br />Lincoln, Nebraska <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />{ <br /> <br />r~arro'ws <br /> <br />from year to year. However, <br />the reservoir would even out <br />the nO\l'S, adding more lhan <br />30.000 acre-feet to the river <br />dUling a dry year and reduc- <br />ing the firer's flows by as <br />mU/:h as 2~7,000 acre-feet <br />dUling a wet year, tJlC sLate. <br />ment says. <br /> <br />C~nal "and <br /> <br />One person \l'ho would be <br />happy if U1e &11ld-carrying <br />high nows' were reduced i.s <br />Verl)'ll SLahl, opera lor of Ne- <br />braska Public Power Dis. <br />trict's dh'e~iol1s from Ule <br />South PlalLe River, <br />Stahl says the sand cani~ <br />by tile river clogs up the <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />From Page 68- <br /> <br />Korty Canal about every <br />other' year, cutling the <br />canal's capacily in half. It <br />t.akes fouf or five workers <br />and carth-mo\ing equlprnent <br />about a month to clean out <br />the canal, removing as much <br />as 4 feet of sand from Ihe <br />botLom of the fITs! mile of the <br />canal <br />"If we had a market for i~ <br />we'd ~h3ve a gold mine," Stahl <br />said of the mile-long, l{)'fooL. <br />high mound of sand 'NPPD <br />has conected [rom the bot. <br />tom of the canal <br />But before Narrows can be <br />baUt, it must o\'ercome con- <br />siderable opposition from <br />landO\lllers in the South <br />Platte Valley of Colorado, a <br />, diminishing cost.benefit anal. <br />ysis, questions from Nebra.<r <br />kaIiS about ils effect On the <br />~,centrdl areas of the Platte <br />. !li\'er mId oUler environmen- <br />. tal objections. <br />"11lC' Narro\vs is essen- <br />tiany a Nebraska project," <br />s;lid Honk '11uel of Fort Mol" <br />gan during a recrr.t hearing. <br />An opp{)nent of building the <br />darn at the Fori ~rorg.:J:n site, <br />he w-ged Nebra..skz.ns to fJ.JVP <br />t he dam mm-C<1 to anot1lCf <br />site, "1 can prClmis[~ thpIT' <br />wHl be ~l small W<:-lI before <br />tile Narrows is buill (a1the <br />Fon Morgan siLe)." , <br />Miller points out, though,' <br />that geLting another site ap- <br />proved would substantially <br />"eby the projec~ which is <br />read)' to go aLthe Fan Mar, <br />gan site if congn:s..sioI12.1 fl- <br />nanciJ'l.g can be reia.stated. <br /> <br />Page ..3 c;f ",'f___ <br />