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<br />Mr. Berthelson: I have seen some figures in which you made an origi- <br />nal filing to approximately 77,000 acre-feet and asked for an enlarge- <br />ment which would place the total withdrawal and mlklnq it as much as <br />l30 or 132,000, is that right? <br /> <br />Mr. Brannan: When taking into consideration with the Sweetwater? <br /> <br />Mr. Berthelson: Yes. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Mr. Brannan: Yes. <br /> <br />Mr. Berthelson: Now where does the water go after it goes through <br />your turbines? <br /> <br />Mr. Brannan: It goes into an afterbay and with . . . <br /> <br />Mr. Berthelson: The afterbay is where? <br /> <br />I~. Brannan: It is below the dam. It is below the generator and <br />there it would be pumped back up during the night with cheap power <br />from a thermal plant, presumably one of the thermal plants in the <br />Steamboat area, and turned back down through the generator again <br />during the peak-demand period of each day. <br /> <br />Itr. Berthelson: It would still be in the White River watershed, <br />this water you are talking about? <br /> <br />11r. Brannan: Yes, sir. Let me make clear that the afterbay might <br />well be, and I think would be, if the present boundaries are such as <br />described now in the bill and as was referred to by the subject. <br />The afterbay would be Sweetwater Lake. And the power plant is on <br />Sweetwater Lake. But the water will be pumped back up to the Meadows. <br /> <br />~r. Berthelson: You don't have any hydroelectric plants on the <br />Sweetwater now? <br /> <br />Mr. Brannan: Not by itself. Not unrelated to the total project. <br /> <br />Mr. Ber.thelson: That is what I am trying to get at. I want to get <br />the total picture of what is going to happen to this water and where I <br />it is going to go. I am sorry I have to ask some dumb questions, but <br />I would kind of like to know actually what is going to happen. What <br />are your water plans and where do you plan to market this water? <br />You mentioned the Piceance Basin. How much of this total filing <br />would you anticipate would go to the Piceance Basin by this conduit <br />you mentioned? That is, of the total? <br /> <br />Mr. Brannan: I am of the opinion that when the Piceance and the <br /> <br />-10- <br />