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The Pueblo Chieftain Online - Tuesday April 03, 2001 <br />HIL "A--- I <br />UI�kfll' <br />wysiwyg:H91 / http: / /www.chieftain.com/tuesday /news /index/article /2 <br />Ijc .9tie o Q)t(Itaill <br />News <br />Make Chieftain.com your Home Page <br />Weather <br />Current Temp: 67 <br />Extended Forecast <br />DEPARTMENTS: <br />News <br />Sports <br />Business <br />Lifestyle <br />Editorial <br />Obituaries <br />Classifieds <br />Daily Crossword <br />Comics & Games <br />Movie Listings <br />TV Listings <br />Weather <br />Search <br />Archives <br />Daily Headlines <br />RECENTISSUES: <br />Monday <br />Tuesday <br />Wednesday <br />Thursday <br />Friday <br />Saturday <br />Sunday <br />OTHER SOURCES: <br />AP: The Wire <br />USAToday <br />The Gazette <br />Rocky Mountain News <br />Denver Post <br />CNNia <br />ABOUT PUEBLO: <br />Business Directory <br />City Guide <br />Pueblowest View <br />Chamber of Commerce <br />Riverwalk <br />Pueblo Convention <br />Center <br />Virtual Tours <br />Tuesday April 03, 2001 <br />Water bank at Lake Pueblo <br />may require federal approval <br />By JAMES AMOS <br />The Pueblo Chieftain <br />Home - Personalize - Help <br />Congressional authority may be needed to allow <br />Lake Pueblo to be used for a proposed water bank <br />proj ect. <br />Members of a subcommittee of the Southeastern <br />Colorado Water Conservancy District heard <br />Monday that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation may <br />not have the authority to lease storage space in the <br />reservoir for water that may leave the Arkansas <br />River basin. <br />Currently, the bureau leases storage space to <br />Aurora for water the Denver -area suburb bought <br />in the Arkansas Valley and routes north. But the <br />district has for years opposed the yearly lease <br />contracts, saying the bureau can't do business <br />with an entity that isn't part of the nine - county <br />conservancy district. <br />The district collects a small property tax to repay <br />the federal government for Pueblo Dam and other <br />parts of the Fryingpan - Arkansas water project, <br />which pipes West Slope water to cities and farms <br />in the Arkansas Valley. <br />The bureau is reassessing its ability to contract <br />with Aurora, and that has raised the water -bank <br />questions. <br />Water banks, as usually discussed in the region, <br />provide a tradinlz mechanism between farmers <br />We Want to be <br />IY 11 It NT:� N <br />Y C TE <br />Your Eye Doctor <br />A <br />*M C3 tC Ali No" [1 <br />+ Wit# #`R i$il` # "AR L4 ii Eg; <br />rranwortation <br />lt�rOt+'�i8r1tS <br />Pueblo <br />1 of 3 4/4/014:25 PM <br />