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<br />Natural Energy Resources Company <br />P. O. Box 567, Palmer Lake, Colorado 80133 <br />(719) 481-2003 Fax (719) 481-3452 <br /> <br />June 29,2007 <br /> <br />Mayor Lionel Rivera and Council <br />City of Colorado Springs <br />P. O. Box 1575, MC 1549 <br />Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903 <br /> <br />Subject: Colorado's paradigm energy and water option <br /> <br />Dear Mayor Rivera and Council Members: <br /> <br />The enclosed White Paper briefly explains how the innovative Central Colorado Project (CCP) can soon <br />multiply the reliability, productivity, and quality of finite energy and water resources for the Southwestern <br />Region's highest priority drought, growth, and climate change needs. <br /> <br />CCP's flexible high storage concept for multiple rivers is a paradigm breakthrough for conserving, <br />regulating, and enlarging limited natural resources. Its unprecedented 10 to I benefit-cost expectations can <br />quickly unite competing stakeholders throughout the Gunnison, Colorado, South Platte, Arkansas, and Rio <br />Grand river basins. CCP's selective gravity augmentations for variable regional needs must be considered in <br />the Bureau's ongoing South Platte, Aspinall, and Southern Delivery System EIS studies under NEPA. <br /> <br />CCP is specifically designed to protect and enhance Southwestern farms, green valleys, river flows, and <br />environments on both sides of the Divide, while assuring low cost utilities for urban consumers. <br /> <br />Modem computer simulations can quickly confinn an acre-foot in CCP's high altitude Union Park pumped- <br />storage site could yield region-wide energy and water values equal to 20 or 30 acre-feet in traditional <br />reservoirs, such as Pueblo and Powell. The proposed Colorado Springs enlargement of Pueblo Reservoir is <br />not viable, because its earthen dam could be overtopped and suddenly fail with only 55% oftoday's <br />Probable Maximum Flood (PMF) criteria. See Interior's July 2000 Pueblo Dam Risk Analysis. <br /> <br />In view ofCCP's breakthrough economic and environmental multiplier values for multiple basins, I <br />respectfully request an opportunity to brief and guide a Colorado Springs leader tour of CCP' s strategic <br />Union Park Reservoir and Dam sites during this summer season. Thank you, and please advise. <br /> <br />1J:::J;dL <br /> <br />Dave Miller <br />President <br /> <br />enclosures:" <br />I <br />1. White Paper oni Central Colorado Project, dated April 19, 2007. Previously sent to "cc" recipients. <br />2. Brighton Standard Blade article on CCP cure for South Platte farm crisis, dated June 12,2007. <br /> <br />cc: USBR; Army CDE; EP A; Council on Environmental Quality; National Academy of Sciences; Colorado <br />Inter-Basin Compact Committee & Roundtables; Colorado cities & counties; Colorado Congressional <br />Delegation & Legislators; Colorado Water Congress; Colorado Foundation for Water Education; Colorado <br />Environmental Coalition; Western fann organizations; Upper & Lower Colorado River Commissions; <br />Governors Ritter, Sebelius, Heineman, Richardson, Freudenthal, Napolitano, Schwartzenegger, Gibbons, & <br />Huntsman; Secretaries ofInterior, Agriculture, and Energy; Congressional Resources Committees. <br />