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I aerial mapping with the State of Colorado and the Geological survey. The same on our Battle- ment Mesa Project and Bluestone Project. Things are working ahead. We have also initiated work, other than in a 'limited' way on our Grand Mesa Project, Pete. I think things are going ahead fine on that. Essentially that completes our work on investigations. On our Small Reclamation project with the Orchard City Irrigation District (I believe the only Small Reclamation Project we have in the State of Colorado) money is available on that project. Work has consisted principally of meetings with the engineers of this District in trying to secure a contract for energy for the pumping of water. We've had a series of three meetings and I think we have this matter just about concluded so we can move 'ahead on the con- struction of that project. I I brought with me here just a little in- formation, some rough figures, on our past year's operation on the three projects which have recently been completed on the western slope of Colorado. They are the Collbran Proj- ect, the Smith Fork Project, and the paonia Project. As you all know, we have had a rather serious water year this past year. As an indi- cation of that we feel from our rough figures that flows in western Colorado were about 64% of normal. On our Collbran project this past year, principally because of the fact we went into the year with a rather substantial holdover, we were able to deliver 100% of the water supply under that project this past year. This is very favorable considering that, generally speaking, it was about a 60% to 65% water year. On the Smith Fork Project we were not quite as favor- able in that regard. The project is designed to yield 10,300 acre-feet of storage water. We were able to deliver under that project only 5,403 acre-feet, or about 52% of an ideal water supply. This was principally due to the fact