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PATENT PENDING <br />SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY DIVERTING WATER AND <br />PROVIDING PEAK HYDROELECTRIC POWER <br />Park Dam” confirmed Union Park Dam will not require an emergency spillway for floods, <br />because of the reservoir’s small 26 - square mile - upstream drainage area and the dam’s <br />large freeboard capacity. Furthermore, the seismic stability of Union Park Dam is <br />considerably increased because the dam is designed as a massive concrete gravi ty <br />structure resting on a foundation of competent granitic rock. These studies also indicate <br />Union Park’s high - volume pumping capabilities and large storage capacity can be <br />operated to greatly reduce catastrophic Flood - Failure risks from these major Bureau <br />reservoirs. CCP’s flood protection and public safety values for vulnerable down stream <br />federal dams are unique in the water development industry. <br />CONGRESSIONAL MANDATE <br />Congress authorized construction of the Bureau’s Aspinall Reservoirs (Blue Mesa, Morrow <br />Point, and Crystal) i n 1956 to primarily help Colorado develop about a third of its remaining <br />unused Colorado River Compact entitlements for local and statewide consumptive needs. <br />Colorado subsequently granted the Bureau its 300,000 acre - feet Aspinall Marketable Pool <br />Water Ri ght for that specific purpose. Revenues from long - term Aspinall Pool water <br />service contracts were intended as user repayments for Congress’s original Aspinall <br />Project construction authorization. A recent Colorado Supreme Court ruling confirmed the <br />Bureau ’s unused Aspinall Pool Rights are still available for contracting and upstream <br />development for local and statewide consumptive needs. <br />All Upper Colorado River trans - mountain diversions are from Colorado’s Main - Stem Basin <br />tributaries. Colorado’s wetter untapped Gunnison Basin Branch of the Colorado River still <br />has most of its original average annual native outflows at Grand Junction. The Gunnison <br />River and the Bureau’s available Aspinall storage and Aspinall Pool Rights provide a large <br />dependable water s ource for new high - altitude storage. CCP will finally fulfill Congress’s <br />1956 regional water development and repayment mandates for Colorado and the Bureau <br />of Reclamation. CCP’s energy and water productivity multipliers for our Nation’s Western <br />and Southw estern Regions are an unprecedented added bonus. <br />OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL <br />Participating energy and water providers can cooperatively own, finance, and operate CCP <br />with a Central Colorado Project Authority (CCPA), for mutual benefits of local and regional <br />s takeholders. Farm and environmental associations, as well as down river states, may be <br />represented on CCPA’s Board and operational management team. CCP’s complex <br />energy/water storage and distribution decisions can be optimized with computers and real <br />time flood, normal, and drought flow data from ground and satellite reporting stations. <br />EXPECTED BENEFIT - COST RATIO <br />A farsighted team of energy, water, and environmental planning experts can employ <br />advanced computer simulation techniques to quickly confir m CCP’s preliminary expected <br />benefit - cost ratio of at least 10 to 1. Most traditional Western storage projects on rivers <br />were built with 2 to 1 benefit - cost expectations. The National Environmental Policy Act <br />5 <br />