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<br /> <br />MAR-04-2003 TUE 10:04 AM TROUT W[TWER & FREEMAN <br /> <br />;FAK NO, 3038324485 <br /> <br />during the 1994-95 and 1995.96 wat~ years have qeen reviewed and eompared to what <br />would have oCCUlTed if bypass flow r~qujrements h.d been imposecl on these facilities. <br />Actual implemenliUon of the rap elid:nOt cause any 1055 of water supply from any of tile <br />reservoirs, Attachment 1 is a map of~he Cache la Poudre basin that shows the stream <br />reaches ancl reservoirs that are inc\utllid in the rop,' Attachment 2 in an lIlllIlysis that <br />clemotlStrates that ifbypass flow requlrements had peen imposed on one of Greeley's <br />reservoirs in 1989, over 50% of me water supply li'om that facility would have been lost. <br />Attachment 3 shows the actUal improvements in the Cache la Poudre River trout habitat <br />that resulted from the lOP eomparecl with the impi;ovements that would have OCCUrTed <br />with bypass flows, The enwoMlentlll benefits prqvided by the 10P were always superior <br />to those that would have resulted frolit bypw flows, Attachment 4 shows that in a dry <br />year like the winter of 1994-95, the lOP not only provicled greater streamflows d\.lring the <br />critical Wintertime low flow periods than wO\.lld Julve been provided by bypass flows, but <br />also enhanced streamt10ws over whafwould haveioceurred naturally, <br />, <br /> <br />VlIi . 2 <br /> <br />-- <br /> <br />P. 20 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />