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<br />I want to explain just briefly what ou~ <br />plan is now, the way it was developed through <br />the cooperative planning. First, we elimi- <br />nated Trappe~s Lake and substituted the Lost <br />Park Reservoir on a tributary of the North <br />FOrk of the White River and Ripple Reservoi~ I <br />on the North Fork of the White River just down <br />stream from Trappers Lake. This is a view of <br />the Ripple Reservoir site, the damsite would <br />be right across here (pointing on screen). <br />This is the reservoir basin. The capacity of <br />this reservoir is limited by these lakes and <br />ponds up here in the Rio Blanco dude ranch. So <br />we limited our capacity then so that it would <br />not interfere or inundate this recreation area <br />above and the private ~anch area there. <br /> <br />Then we cut out most of the project lands <br />in the Axial Basin area so that we would not <br />have to take White River water Over into the <br />Yampa Basin. So we did away with our Yellow <br />Jacket Canal and reduced the capacity of <br />Thornburg Reservoir. This is a view of Thorn- <br />bUrg Reservoir on Milk Creek looking upstream <br />to the east. The damsite would be right here <br />across the narrows and the reservoir would <br />back up into this area. It would come right <br />below the Captain Thornburg monument. It <br />WOuld not inundate that with our present plan. <br />So the plan was reduced some by cutting out all <br />of these Axial Basin lands out west of the town <br />of Axial and not diverting any water from the <br />White River over into the Yampa Basin. <br /> <br />We reduced our acreage as I mentioned, <br />down quite a bit as a result of this. We <br />changed from 41,000 aCres in the project dOwn <br />to 23,000 acres which is in our current plan. <br />Also at the request of the conse~vancy dis- I <br />trict, local interests, several oil companies. . <br />and other people we added municipal, domestic <br />and industrial water into the project plan for <br />service of the White River Valley all the way <br />from Buford through Meeker on down to Rangely. <br />Also the oil shale land could get water under <br />