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<br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. DOUGLAS: <br /> <br />I feel that we can recommend to <br />the people and to this Board that they <br />advise the Bureau that the feasibility <br />report that is -- that is before anything <br />is done -- that the report be comple ted. I <br />We have already spent a nickel. Maybe <br />we had better throw another in and see <br />what we come up with. <br /> <br />I thank you. <br /> <br />(Applause) <br /> <br />Our previous speaker has set the <br />problem and now I would like to have the <br />proposed solution discussed by Jim Douglas <br />of the Bureau of Reclamation. Mr. Douglas. <br /> <br />Mr. Chairman, members of the Board, <br />ladies and gentlemen. The map that has <br />been prepared here, if I can orient you, <br />north is up and Alamosa is right here <br />(indicating). The head lakes are in here <br />and this is the Mishak Lake area (indicating). <br /> <br />The Governor pointed out that we of <br />the Bureau have worked with the state for <br />about the past four years in trying to <br />reach a solution to Colorado's problem <br />in connection with the compact. <br /> <br />The plan which we have developed <br />consists of a conveyance channel which <br />would start in this area and run generally <br />south and into the Rio Grande. There are <br />approximately a million acre-feet of water <br />which is either diverted or naturally flows <br />into the Closed Basin. The drain and <br />pattern is generally towards the sump. <br />We do feel that at least 100,000 acre- I <br />feet is nonbeneficial for use and can <br />be pumped or made available to this <br />channel and diverted into the Rio Grande. <br /> <br />To accomplish this salvage, we feel <br />that a well system is by far the most <br />adaptable to the situation. The reason <br />for that is that the wells have a greater <br />