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PATENT PENDING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY DIVERTING WATER AND PROVIDING PEAK HYDROELECTRIC POWER interconnect Union Park Reservoir with the Bureau of Reclamation’s existi ng Fryingpan - Arkansas Upper Colorado River Collection System, for enhanced flood and drought protection throughout east and west sides of the Continental Divide. An optional South Platte - Palmer Divide gravity conduit can efficiently serve central Front Ra nge and Colorado Springs needs. ENERGY MULTIPLIER VALUES CCP’s large off - channel Union Park reservoir, located at 10,120 feet altitude, will be filled via high - capacity reversible pump generators from the Bureau’s existing Blue Mesa and Taylor Park Rese rvoirs, located at 7,393 and 9,319 feet. This filling operation will occur during heavy spring snowmelt months, when surplus energy and flood waters are abundantly available for high - altitude pumped - storage. Union Park’s large energy storage capability co nverts surplus, and currently wasted, base power from coal, nuclear, hydro, solar, and wind generation facilities into instantly available peaking power for the Western Power Grid. Back - up peaking power is essential to prevent regional brown and blackouts during high demand summer cooling and winter heating months. Reliable peaking power can have system - wide values up to ten times regular base power values. Managed water releases and dependable river flows from Union Park’s flexible high - altitude storage site can also substantially increase hydro - power yields from existing down - river dams throughout the Gunnison, Colorado, Platte, Arkansas, and Rio Grande River Basins. Some of the smaller down - river dams, that are not equipped with hydro - power, can be econ omically upgraded to provide clean renewable energy, after CCP’s optimized multi - river regulating capabilities are implemented. Revenues from CCP’s unique regional energy multiplier capabilities will cover a large portion of the project’s construction and operating costs for regional water multiplier capabilities. WATER MULTIPLIER VALUES CCP’s single high - altitude Union Park Reservoir and advanced pumped - storage operation can regulate and multiply water resource benefits throughout the Southwestern Regi on’s five largest river basins. Specifically, CCP’s flexible river augmentation capabilities can assure the following real time benefits for Colorado and its eleven down river states (Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming): x Managed gravity augmentations from CCP’s strategic high - altitude storage site will automatically integrate and substantially increase the reliability, productivity, and quality of existing developed water rights and stor age systems throughout the Gunnison, Colorado, Platte, Arkansas, and Rio Grande River Basins; x Captured snowmelt and timely releases from Union Park’s high storage can balance, protect, and optimize regional river flows, reservoir levels, and water quality under unpredictable and highly variable flood and drought conditions; 3