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<br />additional need for other hotels, and looking for those along this area right here. Moving down into what we call the <br />Historic/Interpretive Park we find Pike's Stockade was located right about there. We plan on development of wetlands. <br />educational centers, some theater areas where we can have some displays, so we have a lot planned for this area. It's a <br />more passive area. We also separated walking traffic and bicycle traffic, and this will be linked to the river trail that <br />goes from U.S.C. out around Pueblo Reservoir. They will be able to come to this river system without having to cross a <br />city street. <br /> <br />We have two plans in place to provide the water. One is to use the returri flows and tail water from WestPlains' power <br />plant. They have a 200 CFS decree and historically divert between 30-90 CFS. Their diversion is up here on the river. <br />They bring it to two cooling basins, and then return it here and it eventually gets down to Runyon lake and returns to the <br />river. That's going to be the primarywaterright. In 1993, the Board of Water Works also filed for a junior water right, <br />(direct flow water right), of course it will not be in priority often. So, as part of that decree we have a plan for <br />augmentation to make out of priority depletions. Also, we filed on the tail water of WestPlains Energy so that we could <br />protect this segment and the water in this segment. <br /> <br />Our plan is to break ground in June. We plan to be complete with the infrastructure portions in three to four years. <br />That's not all the commercial development -- it will come as we can promote and entice businesses and developers to <br />locate in the area. But, the infrastructure will take us three to four years and we are going to be ready to go in June of <br />this year. So we are on a very aggressive time line, but it's one that I think we can meet and we think it is a commitment <br />we have to make to the community that voted for this project. <br /> <br />Q ----fine arts --- river. Untranscribable <br /> <br />A. No. The main river as it is today will stay there. It's just reopening and enhancing what the original channel was. <br />It will be flowing from WestPlains Energy where there is already an average flow of 30 & 95 CFS. It's just piped <br />right now; we're going to open it back up. Also, we filed for a junior water right, and we actually will build the <br />project where it could be turned into a reservoir project just like they have done in San Antonio, where we could <br />actually release transmountain water to the project and just have a substitute supply plan for any losses that are <br />eaused by the project. <br />Q. <br />A. It protects the project from anyone else filing on the water rights. It is a very junior water right and the <br />augmentation plan will have to be the key or important part of that. So for the water that we need, it will have to <br />come out of our current inventories. Actually, they're not large -- we're refining those now, and it looks like 35-40 <br />acre-feet per year -- because there's really no consumptive use in the project other than evaporation. The total <br />project will be lined, so whatever evaporation there is will be from any water fountains, water features and the open <br />surfaces of the water. <br /> <br />Arkansas River Basin Water Forum <br /> <br />40 <br /> <br />itA River of Dreams and Realities" <br />