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<br />I <br /> <br />area. As some of you know, this was proposed as part of the project <br />features for Rocky Mountain Power Company's hydroelectric project. This <br />would have been the eastern phase of it. (slide) This is going up <br />Sweetwater Creek. Now we are coming back to the west to the junction <br />of Dry Sweetwater and Sweetwater Creek. (slide) Now we drop a little <br />further south outside of the primitive area to give you an idea of what <br />some of this country looks like, adjacent to some of the area that has <br />been proposed by various and assorted groups in the state. There was <br />a pretty fair article in the paper Sunday. <br /> <br />(slide) This is Heart Lake. Excuse me, did I say Heart Lake? The other <br />lake was Deep Lake. This was taken several years ago looking generally <br />at the top of the picture, toward Blair Mountain. You get Blair Lake, <br />Shadow Lake. Swinging around ,over here you come to Crater Lake. (slide) <br />Here is a view looking north along the east edge of Blair Mountain which <br />shows up on the left hand side of the slide. Jet, Shadow, and~Blair <br />Lakes, and so forth, looking generally down past the creek toward the <br />South Fork Canyon. And the bulk of the existing Flat Tops primitive <br />area on toward the top of the picture to the north. <br /> <br />(slide) Here is a view looking west along the north point of Blair <br />Mountain. Crater Lake is right just below the arrow. You just see a <br />very small amount of the water surface. This particular lake was part <br />of the Colorado River Water Conservation District proposal for its <br />hydroelectric project and water storage on the South Fork of the White <br />River. This would have been one of the features, or may be one of the <br />features, for a pumped storage situation. Coming up on the facility <br />near the mouth of Patterson Creek, which I will show you later, running <br />up into either Crater Lake or one of the adjacent lakes. <br /> <br />(slide) This is a slide I threw in just to give you an idea again on <br />orientation in regard to the Rocky Mountain Power Company's project and <br />how the facilities lie in relation to the existing boundary of the <br />primitive area. You will see Sweetwater Lake where the arrow is on the <br />right hand side, coming across northwesterly into the Meadows area. <br />The big blue chunk in there is the approximate site of the Meadows dam. <br />Tunnel facilities over in the Lost Solar Creek for more diversions and <br />another dam just below the mouth of Lost Solar just below the private <br />lands on out to the South Fork campgrounds toward Bugle. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />These are all, I guess you might say, spinoffs from the studies that <br />were made I guess back in the 30's and 40's by the Bureau of Reclamation. <br />Correct me if I am wrong. but I am sure that there are lots of people <br />that are thinking about this general area. (slide) This is one of the <br /> <br />-25- <br />