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I over the river, that there was excess water at the lower reaches of the river which passes the City of Sterling in the winter which is not being utilized in Colorado, and that there was a possibility of pumping from the Narrows Reservoir into the Riverside area. So the Bureau, based upon the criteria that we must satisfy both ends of the river, which seemed to be impossible, went to work on a new plan that resulted in a modified Narrows Project. This plan involves utilizing Jackson Reservoir over here, which is a fairly good reservoir, and pumping from the Jackson Reservoir into the Riverside system here on the west side. The Jackson Reservoir belongs to people down stream. We can replace the Jackson Reservoir water to the people down stream from the Narrows and utilize the reservoir storage to pump into the Riverside system. The Riverside has a very inefficient sys- tem. The reservoir leaks almost as fast as you put water in it, and the canal system, as you can see, is some sixty or seventy miles long at least and leaks water all the way down. This is a very expensive system to operate. So what we considered in this modified plan was abandon- ing the Riverside Reservoir, eliminating much of the canal system, moving the headgate down- stream and diverting a shorter distance into the present canal and then supplementing the water by pumping from Jackson Reservoir into the canal. We thought that we could .eliminate most of the shortages of the Riverside system except in very critical years. But even in critical years we could do much to eliminate the present shortages. I Then to satisfy the North Sterling area there was conceived another pump lift from the river from water which is presently going to waste, below the City of Sterling, lifting that back into the canal system and putting it into the North Sterling Reservoir. By doing this we increased the water supply of the overall project about 32,000 acre-feet annually, which is an in- crease of about a third of the water supply, but at an additional cost of only $5 million.