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WYO. of <br />WCr <br />NEYEN <br />ers in Che eNE, WYO. (AP) -..- Vot Stage II, as ro ~` <br />ed b Cy ,,NE, on Tuesday reject- P Pow, would ex. a 58-42 I pand the facili • <br />percent margin a e. ties of Stage I and <br />p°S� million bond issue that feet of water a yearn r 20 o0o sne's <br />would have financed Stage II of the use. <br />Cheyenne Water Project. <br />With all 42 precincts r The project had been opposed by <br />61226 votes were cast a reporting, The <br />groups, including <br />va <br />bond issue gainst t mental or g environ- O <br />K'l 4,566 voters en- damage0� Which feared r dorsed it. ildlife and national j- <br />The bond • forest areas, and by citizens who <br />the water project, which water S that o over the hi <br />Project water development company b�� ofd have to ac- <br />around wi estimated cost of g �' project. S <br />= million. THE WYOMING Legislature in <br />Tom Kilty, Cheyenne Chamber and authorized a $20 milli <br />°n grant <br />Of Commerce president and head fort $0 won loan to Cheyenne <br />of a citizens' group Supporting the ey was project, but the <br />bond issue, said work will have to Cheyenne voterscontin gent upon <br />start over on the gent upon <br />think we're water project. ,I bond issue to cover the remaining <br />the <br />back to work n t0 have t° go $40 million .remaining this Problem as Elmer Garrett tepesident of the <br />soon as we can,,, he said. <br />been E pROdECT'S Stage I has which had vigorously sought <br />Utilities, <br />operation for nearly two bond issue's passage, Y sought the <br />decades, and brings water east Pl cations oft bn Said the unn- <br />from the Little Snake River west ure were "far- reachin issues fail - <br />of the Continental Divide near the cal." g and criti- <br />Wyoming- Colorado border, to the "The need for water is real,,, he <br />North Platte River drainage said. <br />That allows C The board itself had <br />water from the hleaydewaters o vert that water rates would projected <br />North Platte into reservo t cent a year for eight years to cover <br />supply W o , , wipe the cost of the project, but it said <br />tal city with i water c$pi- t expense would <br />the long run to Cheyenn worth it in <br />