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MR. KNIGHTS: "That's a good question. I'll be glad to try <br />to explain it, because in the process of project <br />development and project planning you come up with <br />many, many alternates. This is one alternate in <br />the entire plan. And you must settle between <br />those alternates, to a certain extent, in order <br />to expeditiously go ahead with your investigation; <br />or , you must solve your entire investigation on <br />both alternates. In other words, make two parallel- <br />ing studies to give the total overall picture. <br />We were instructed, by the state when this <br />committee was formed, the immediate task given to <br />the Bureau was to come up with this site selec- <br />tion report which we have presented to the com- <br />mittee, in the hopes of all of us, both the Bureau <br />and the state and this committee, that it would <br />allow us to select between two obvious alternates <br />which had haunted us for many years. Now, if that <br />study doesn't solve the problem as it was put <br />together, as we set the study up, if it doesn't <br />answer questions which this committee wanted <br />and which the state wanted answered, then we, the <br />Bureau of Reclamation, would like further in- <br />structions of what do you want and how should we <br />proceed? Because we can proceed to firm it up on <br />one site or the other site or both sites. <br />I would like to point out to you what would <br />be involved if we go so far as some of the sugges- <br />tions that have been made here in this meeting. <br />If we are going to take both sites and completely <br />solve this as a basin study, then, starting out <br />in the upper river, we must know exactly, pre- <br />cisely, what Colorado Springs and the City of <br />Denver are going to do with the water up there. <br />What uses are to be made? We must include Two <br />Forks and we must include the complete operation. <br />We must know exactly how much water Denver is <br />going to bring in; how much are they going to use; <br />how much is the population going to grow; how much <br />comes off the rooftops, Ceece, and how much comes <br />off the streets; and what return flows we get <br />which will affect the river down below. Those <br />are just items that come into it naturally. <br />We must know then, in the present face of the <br />-36- <br />