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<br />31 <br /> <br />planned. In the second Annual Report of the Upper Colorado River Commission <br /> <br />Wjoming hE,d none listed either for 1950, lihile Colorado had eighteen totaling <br /> <br /> <br />156,000 acre-feet and Utah also had eighteen totaling 81,000 acre-feet. 109 <br /> <br />As far as more of a long-term outlook on transmountain diversions, in 1978 <br /> <br />Colorado had 635,000 acre-feet of such diversions, Utah had 95,000 acre-feet, <br /> <br />and Wyoming a measly 7,000 acre-feet. 110 <br /> <br />Along with the C-BT, the Moffat Tunnel was tIle most significant transmountain <br /> <br />diversion within Colorado at the time of the UCRBCC meetings. A project not <br /> <br />of the Bureau of Reclamation, but of the Denver Water Board, Moffat Tunnel was <br />th ' 'd" b ' t D 111 D' th 1930' <br />e fHst transmountaln lverSlon to rlng wa er to enver. urlng e s <br /> <br />Denver, like the Eastern slope farmers, found itself looking westllard for its <br /> <br />present and future water needs. Much more precipitation fell ut'on the West slope, <br /> <br />after all, as the Pacific clouds dropped their moisture upon contact with the <br /> <br />Rockies. The Moffat Tunnel was planned and built l<ith the purpose of alleviating <br /> <br /> <br />dry conditions in Denver and supporting the needs of its yrowing poPulation.112 <br /> <br />Its first unit began to function in June of 1936 and by 1945 the tunnel was <br /> <br />delivering over 37,000 acre-feet from one of the Colorado's tributaries to the <br /> <br />Eastern slope during the spring months. 113 In 1948, the year of the signing of <br /> <br />the Upper Basin compact, the Moffat Tunnel provided the city of Denver with <br />, f h ' d 114 'h C d <br />twenty-flve percent 0 t e water lt consume. So whlle t e -BT woul event- <br /> <br />ually surpass the Moffat Tunnel in terms of the amount of water being diverted, <br /> <br />the latter was delivering more in the years leading up to the UCRBCC and was looked <br /> <br />upon as one of the keys to sustaining the steady population increases in Denver. <br /> <br />Inasmuch as Wyoming's Commissioner Bishop knew of the potential enormity <br /> <br />of Colorado projects such as the C-BT and Moffat Tunnel, it is easy to see why he <br /> <br />stood against the power of states that diverted so much water from the Colorado <br /> <br />and its tributaries out of its natural basin. It also helps to explain why in <br /> <br />..... <br /> <br />.~_r - <br />