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<br />. <br /> <br />You will recall that in the funding of the Rio Grande <br />Reservoir Project, W.W. Wheeler ~ Associates calculated that by <br />implementation of this program of storage in aid of minimizing <br />compact over-deliveries, over 25,000 acre feet of water, on the <br />average in the study period, had been saved for Colorado by the <br />use of Rio Grande Reservoir in the program. We have not yet <br />obtained the comparable calcula~ion for Santa Maria and <br />Continental Reservoirs, but we expect that volume to excee'd <br />10,000 a.f. per year over the same study period. It is <br />important to note that under this program, the owners of the <br />Santa Maria and Continental Reservoirs have in fact orovided <br />substantial storage space for the benefit of the S'tate of <br />Colorado and all the other water users on the Rio Grande River. <br /> <br />It is my understanding (and ~his point remains to be con- <br />firmed at the annual meeting of the Santa Maria Reservoir Com- <br />pany which will occur next week) that the Company is not <br />req-.lesting a grant from the ewcs. But in the circumstances, <br />where the Company is making water available for beneficial use <br />in Colorado for many persons beyond its stockholders, the Com- <br />pany expects to reques~ from the CWCB a loan for the costs of <br />the whole project. In light of the benefits to a very broad <br />class of users of water, who will be benefitted by the rehabil- <br />itation and who are not stockholders in the Company, we hcpe <br />that you can give this approach favorable consideration. <br /> <br />Please call if you have questions, or if I can provide <br />further information. <br /> <br />Yours sincerely, <br /> <br />, _/ [ <br />,). [ I,.... r <br />(,J;'--('-./LA/ (.Ql~L),/ (j!J-~ <br />L-John U. Carlson <br /> <br />JUC:ab <br />Enclosures <br />cc: Board of Directors <br />Barry Nelson <br />L. Ruth Clark <br /> <br />. <br />