BOARD00284

• Board Meeting Date: 1/12/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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which was constructed to bring water from
Dillon Reservoir under the Continental Divide
to the east slope to the North Fork of the
South Platte River. This particular Blue
River system, the part that so far has been
constructed, has about doubled the water supply
of the Denver community.

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The combined storage that I have discussed
so far involves the South Platte at 200,000
gross and 50,000 and the Blue and Dillon Reser-
voir at 250,000 for a total of approximately
500,000 acre-feet of storage capacity. This
capacity doesn't mean that the water is always
there. A safe annual average yield out of
this system is about 300,000 acre-feet each
year, Now this still leaves us with a good
'margin of safety to meet our present require-
ments. Our requirements are about 200,000
acre-feet a year and we have a margin of
safety roughly of 100,000 if we have average
conditions.

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New projects take time to build, time to
plan, to design. to finance and to construct.
Ten, fifteen or twenty years or longer. The
easy ones are all done. The hard ones, the
tough ones, are the ones that remain. Some
of the reasons why it takes this much time
is that we now get into multi-purpose prdjects
more than we ever haVe before. By mul ti-
purpose I mean the consideration of other
factors that relate to water resource develop-
ment such as recreation, flood control, power,
pollution considerations, fish and wildlife,
the ecology and environmental and aesthetic
aspects of these projects. These are important
in the light of recent developments and concern
over these particular aspects of water develop- I
ment. New projects, including municipal and
industrial purposes, have to consider all these
related purposes.

One other feature that I have not dis-
cussed and I want to specifically mention is