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<br />" <br /> <br />Members, CWCB <br />September 17, 1981 <br />Page two <br /> <br />reason for this is that there is no way to accurately project the <br />economic benefits which the projects would generate because of <br />the lack of . market to establish the value of municipal and <br />industrial water. In contrast, the value of water for <br />agricultural and municipal uses In the South Platte Basin is <br />reasonably well established. Thus, analyses of economic <br />feasibility can be more readily undertaken for the Hdrdin Dam and <br />Cache la Poudre studies. <br /> <br />In" light of these circumstanc~s, both the Colorddo River <br />Water Conservation District and the Yellow Jacket Water <br />Conservancy District have suggested that the Una Dam and Yellow <br />Jacket studies not include analyses of economic feasibility. I <br />concur since the litmus test of feasibility for these two <br />projects will be the willingness of industrial users to contract <br />for water supplies from each. <br /> <br />Th"ird, it should be noted that while the Una Dam and Yellow <br />Jacket RFPs do not call for analyses of economic feasibrlity, the <br />Yellow Jacket RFP does specify that the study on that project <br />should include an analysis of the financial feasibiLity of the <br />project includJng alternative financing techniques. Such an <br />analysis would entail an investigation of the alternative <br />financial packages which could be put together in order to <br />finance the construction of tHe project. <br /> <br />It is a"ppropriate, in my opinion, to perform such an andiysis <br />for the Yellow Jacket study, but not the others, because: <br /> <br />(1) Yellow Jacket, as a multiple purpose project, would <br />probably require a combination of private and public <br />financing, whereas Una Reservoir, as a single purpose <br />M&I project, could probably be financed entirely with <br />bonds which could be retired exclusively with the <br />revenues from the project. <br /> <br />""' <br /> <br />(2) Hardin Dam would probably have to be subsidized to a <br />large extent with public tax dollars, thus making the <br />question of a private financing package moot. <br /> <br />(3) The Cache la Poudre study will not achieve a degree of <br />detail, due to the range of alternatives which will be <br />under consideration, sufficient to justify a financial <br />analysis at this point. <br />