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I I .~ '-' ", South Platte River basin extending generally southwest of Denver and consisting primarily of the stream channel and Marston Reservoir with 17,000 acre-feet of capacity, Cheesman with 79,000 acre-feet of capacity, Elevenmile which is 98,000 acre-feet and Antero with 15,000 acre- feet of capacity for a total of approximately 200,000 acre-feet of storage reservoir capa- city. It might be worthy to note that this represents about one year's supply for our present community and for those that are inter- ested in talking about millions of gallons, this is 70 billion gallons of water1 ., ; We will move on over to the west slope where we have a major source of supply in the Fraser and Williams Fork area near Winter Park. Here we tap the high mountain streams and by a gravity system involving diversions again from the streams by canals, siphons, tunnels, and of significance, the Moffat Tunnel, we convey water to South Boulder Creek for direct use or storage in GroSS Reservoir. Gross Reservoir has a capacity of 50,000 acre-feet. Now the Williams Fork collection system is particularly interesting because from that area we secure water and by a circuitous route we bring water from the west slope to the east slope through the Gumlick Tunnel, formerly the Jones Pass Tunnel, then back again from the east slope to the west slope through the Vasquez Tunnel over into the Winter Park area and then through a conduit system to the west portal of Moffat Tunnel and back through the Moffat Tunnel to the east slope and down Boulder Creek and store it in Gross Reservoir for direct use. I think it is rather inter- esting to note the travel of that water. The third segment of the west slope collec- tion system involves the Blue River. This is the newest, the largest and probably the most exciting part of our water system. Dillon Reservoir with 250,000 acre-feet of capacity, and I might note that this is 85 billion gallons of water, and the 23-mile Roberts Tunnel