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<br />~~~o <br /> <br />plan. Oil wells have been drilled in the <br />Weldon Valley area; improvements have taken <br />place in that area. The railroads weren't <br />friendly about relocating their lines so that <br />one would compete with the other (1 forget which <br />was which) down through that area and there were <br />a lot of problems in connection with the Narrows <br />Project. The people whose homes were going to <br />be inundated were particularly in disfavor of <br />this project. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />We started looking at other possibilities. <br />We went back to the old Hardin site which at one <br />time was investigated, and concluded that, in <br />view of the difficulties with the Narrows and <br />changed hydrology conditions on the river, it <br />could be a feasible site and would get away from <br />many of the objections previously voiced about <br />the Narrows. Whether we are going to have new <br />objections about the Hardin we don't know as yet. <br />We then took a further look at the plan and at <br />this time the City of Denver requested that we <br />take a hard look to see what benefits could <br />occur to the municipalities. ~n our final anal- <br />sis we concluded (1) that the first call on any <br />future water development in this area must be <br />for municipal and industrial purposes. We have <br />no water to develop new land, that's completely <br />out of the question. So first we must take care <br />of the greatest number of the population and <br />(2). we must serve those irrigated ~reas tnat <br />have been under irrigation for many, many years <br />and are in short supply. Those were the only <br />two priorities that we considered, knowing that <br />there will be a far greater market for this <br />water than we will ever have water. We are <br />talking about a limited amount of water, but <br />there is some water available on the South Platte <br />yet - a small amount. <br /> <br />That led us to the Two Forks site which <br />Denver has long considered as necessary to its <br />full water development, and correctly so. The <br />Two Forks area is located above Denver at the <br />junction of the north and south forks of the <br />South Platte River. With storage there, you can <br />achieve a maximum regulation of the remaining <br /> <br />I <br />