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• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7777
• Author: Ward, R. C.
• Title: Proceedings 1993 Colorado Water Convention, Front Range Water Alternatives and Transfer of Water from One Area of the State to Another, January 4-5, 1993, Denver, Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1993.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

3. Is it true that Thornton has been unwilling to negotiate with
major opponents to the Northern Project, e.g., NCWCD.

4. Is the dry-up of irrigated land by Thornton in northern Colorado
going to be a permanent or temporary dry-up?

5. ? encourage Front Range water authority YET says integration is
impractical...?

6. Can you describe or conceive of any circumstances where Thornton
might benefit from an integration of water supplies among Denver area
suppliers?

7. You stated that there is no evidence that a large central water
project would be more efficient. I agree that bigger is not better
and not more efficient. It appears that the need to create a buffer
for each utility and the competition can lead to overdevelopment and
add costs. If there is not to be a central system, how can these
inefficiencies be avoided?

8. If Thornton had it to do over, would you choose a less confrontive
approach, a more cooperative approach, to secure Northern Colorado
water rights? Or do you feel your secretive approach was the only way
you could have secured the water you need? Same question phrased
differently: Since cooperation is essential, does the City of
Thornton regret its secretive approach in securing Northern Colorado
water rights -- an approach which seems to have taken away any
cooperative spirit Northern Colorado users might have had?

9. How would you make the water permitting system more efficient,
i.e., what would your recommended system be?

10. You spoke of the need to "streamline" the existing legal system.
Can you give us some examples of what you have in mind?

11. Does Thornton have any place to clean up and return to the
agricultural areas some of the water which it hopes to remove
therefrom? If so, what is that place?

12. Thank you. Your speech was both informative and encouraging. Who
do you think best represents the opposite point of view on basin-of-
origin legislation?

13. How can construction and maintenance of golf courses be made
consistent with the need for water conservation? Must one simply
decide that this is an amenity which outweighs the need for water
conservation, or can they be reconciled?

14. What was your impression of the RMN article on the Hydrosphere
report -- how did it differ from your reading of the report?

15. Please tell the Mayors Carpenter, Webb and Lopez that the word is
Xeriscape NOT ~scape. There is a major difference.

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