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I I ." J.~;:ll Engineers felt that the 10,000 acre-feet might be made available, whereas 20,000 acre-feet would be very difficult to ob- tain. So on the basis that we might be able to get 10,000 acre-feet of storage for the preservation of the fish population in the reservoir, I requested Mr. Sparks' office to make that study I and it has been made. I think we might take off from right there - with an understanding of what this 10,000 acre-feet might do and how it might function." MR. NELSON: "Thank you, Dr. Clark. Larry, do you want to have someone present that informa- tion at this time?" Mr. Sparks used two large charts in making his state- ment on the effect of a 10,000 acre-foot permanent pool in John Martin Reservoir. MR. SPARKS: "Gentlemen, we have prepared some charts illustrating the effect of a 10,000 acre-foot permanent pool in John Martin Reservoir. Now the history of this problem is such that, starting many years ago, the first recommendation of the Fish and Wildlife Service was for the estab- lishment of a 10,000 acre-foot pool in the reservoir. When we initiated our study some two years ago upon the effects of that pool on John Martin, we concluded that 10,000 feet would be sufficient for a num- ber of reasons. First; the cost of pro- curing that amount of water, even 10,000 feet, is quite great. When we consider today that we are building the Paonia Proj- ect now under construction to store 21/000 feet of water at a cost of $7,000,000 and we will shortly start construction of the Smith Fork Project for 14,000 feet at.a cost of $4/000,000 (and that, by the way, is so-called 'free water' since there is no purchase of the water involved), you can readily understand that when we talk about 10,000 acre-feet of water we are talking about quite a volume of water, and very expensive water. Go up to 20,000 then we are in a multi-million dollar figure, plus the fact the more water you have in the pool