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$ f <br />critically short of water. In order to give <br />direct service from the river and gravity flows, <br />we are, of course, forced to have our storage <br />above the points of diversion or at such heights <br />as we can supply them by gravity. <br />In addition to that, and this comes back to <br />the efficiency of our offstream reservoirs, we are <br />in this position. Riverside Reservoir, for exam- <br />ple, is approximately 40% efficient from the <br />time the water leaves the river to the point of <br />discharge from the reservoir. Empire Reservoir <br />is not quite as efficient. It is about 25/ <br />efficient from the time water leaves the river <br />until the interim of time has passed and July and <br />August comes along and they need to use this water. <br />There is also another little reservoir which is <br />within Morgan County, (the reservoirs mentioned <br />are in Weld County), which is known as Bijou No. <br />2. The overall efficiency of that reservoir is <br />only 10 %. It is being used at the present time <br />not so much as a direct source of water but as a <br />retarding sort of a thing to supply water to the <br />lower reaches during the later summer months in <br />order to permit a larger chance for diversion at <br />the higher point. The other reservoir that sup- <br />plies Morgan County is Jackson Lake and that's <br />wholly within Morgan County. I believe that I'll <br />quote from Mr. Dille's report where he has worked <br />that out, that that reservoir is about 56% effi- <br />cient. <br />It appears to us without a great deal of <br />calculations that - we'll take the two major <br />reservoirs for example, Riverside and Empire, and <br />if by some stroke you could perform and make that <br />80/ efficient - you would do this, you would <br />have within the framework of the present decrees, <br />for most years, a sufficient water supply in the <br />reservoir itself. In turn, that would do this, <br />it would release and the demand on the river for <br />junior decrees upstream would be far less than <br />it would be with our present system. By that I <br />mean this, that we are attempting to put approxi- <br />mately 60,000 acre -feet of water and get it into <br />storage into Riverside at the end of the spring. <br />