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Colorado Wants to Cut Releases From Reservoir So It Can Refill. Rocky Mountain News
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3/16/2005
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Smith, Jerd
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Colorado Wants to Cut Releases From Reservoir So It Can Refill
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ocky%Mountain News: Legislature <br />1.95% 5 -Year Fixed <br />Payment Option waC. APR 358% <br />TRAVEL DEALS <br />•{J 4 <br />HOME NEWS SPORTS BUSINESS ENTERTAINMENT RECREATION LIFESTYLES OPINION <br />NEWS <br />PRINT THIS STORY I E -MAIL THIS STORY <br />■ Local <br />Colorado wants to cut releases from reservoir <br />• State <br />so it can refill <br />• Nation <br />• World <br />By ]erd Smith, Rocky Mountain News <br />• Election <br />March 16, 2005 <br />• Legislature <br />• Education <br />Colorado will ask Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton to slash <br />- Census 2000 <br />releases from Lake Powell beginning in May to help the giant <br />drought- plagued reservoir refill faster. <br />•Opinion <br />• Columnists <br />Reducing the amount of water flowing out of the lake would provide <br />• Lottery <br />Colorado and its neighbors with a larger buffer against future <br />• Commuting <br />drought - related demands on their shares of the Colorado River. <br />• Obituaries <br />• AP wire <br />Know your <br />legislature <br />Find your senators and <br />representatives, track a <br />bill, listen to legislative <br />proceedings and more. <br />Click here. <br />e- thePeople <br />Join political <br />coversations, sign <br />petitions and write letters <br />at the News` digital town <br />hall. <br />Click here. <br />11 <br />Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico, the so- called Upper <br />Basin states, must deliver 8.23 million acre -feet of water each year <br />from Lake Powell to the Lower Basin states of California, Arizona and <br />Nevada. <br />Colorado would like that amount reduced, perhaps to 7.48 million <br />acre -feet. The lake holds 24.3 million acre -feet. <br />An acre -foot equals about 326,000 gallons, enough to serve up to <br />two urban families for one year. <br />ttp:l lrockymountainnews .corn/drmnllegislature /article /0,1299,DRMN 37_3625106,00.html <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />Y / , <br />burns <br />t , <br />i E }urns <br />Comicast <br />High -Speed <br />Internet <br />3/16/2005 <br />
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