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<br />I <br /> <br />studied by the Bureau of Reclamation and care- <br />fully planned. They are working closely with <br />us, Jim Ingles and Region 7's staff, in the <br />development of plans adequate to meet our <br />requirements for municipal and industrial <br />storage in this particular reservoir. We <br />estimate that the capacity in the reservoir <br />projected for municipal needs might be on the <br />order of 700,000 to 800,000 acre-feet. There <br />will be many problems, there are many problems <br />in connection with developing this reservoir <br />and bringing it to creation. I think that the <br />progress that we are making now is none too <br />fast as far as we are concerned for the devel- <br />opment of this particular storage facility. <br />This represents a projected development now <br />of raw waters which we would bring into our <br />systems. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />We have one other aspect of future plans <br />not so far mentioned and this is the reuse or <br />the reclamation of water for successive uses. <br />I think here in Colorado and I think from this <br />Board's standpoint they recognize this purpose <br />as urgent, that where our water supplies are <br />limited and where we do not have an abundance <br />of water, we cannot forego the consideration <br />of reuse and cannot enjoy the practice of using <br />water once and then discarding it and letting <br />it go on down the stream and out of the state. <br />During the past summer we have built a pilot <br />plant for research purposes in our Denver sys- <br />tem and we have that plant operating at the <br />present time and it is just that, a pilot plant. <br />We are passing through that plant at the present <br />time five gallons per minute. This is about the <br />effluent or sewage that comes from 18 average <br />homes. We are running research studies and <br />we are trying different methods of treatment <br />in order to put this water in satisfactory <br />condition so that it can be used first by in- <br />dustry, for industrial purposes, and second <br />for recycling through our systems for potable <br />use. Within about two or three years we <br />anticipate that we will be moving toward a <br />