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<br />117 <br /> <br />Reservoir and assurance given to Denver that no use of Green Mountain <br />Reservoir vlill be made adversely to the requirements of Denver for the <br />waters of the Blue River system at Dillon over and above the replacement <br />storage provided in Green Mountain Reservoir for the use of western <br />slope water users which, in such event, Denver would accept as a prior <br />burden on the Blue River senior to any claim it has at Dillon, provided <br />the first call for such replacement was made out of tributaries of the <br />Blue between Green Mountain Reservoir and Dillon. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />No authorization or appropriation for the Colorado River <br />Storage Project should be made until there is adequate assurance that <br />the government ,Till not attempt to preclude the development as a prior <br />right of projects being undertaken by Denver, filings for which have <br />been made in the office of the State Engineer of Colorado, which involve <br />and contemplate the creation of an adequate water supply for the <br />Denver metropolitan area; nOD ~ntil assurances have been given that the <br />Colorado River Storage Project vlill not be used in competition with the <br />development of water resources for Denver, but that the government will <br />cooperate with Denver in Denver's effort to secure, at her OVltl expense, <br />an adequate water supply. <br /> <br />Because the preliminary report on the Colorado River Storage <br />Project and participating projects does not indiGate the extent to which <br />any beneficial user of water is expected to share in t he cost of the <br />project, the benefits -sought by Denver should be made available to her <br />at no greater cost than charged to other beneficial users. <br /> <br />These requests on behalf of Denver are made wi_th the assumDtion <br />that others in Colorado will make corresponding requea~ for protection <br />of developments contemplated by them and that the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board, through its engineering and legal facilities, will <br />make still further suggestions for the general protection of the State. <br />In this letter we make no suggestions regarding the advisability of <br />curtailing further authorizations until there shall have been a complete <br />survey of the State of Colorado. We assume the Colorado ffater Conservation <br />Board will endeavor to protect each river basin against an over-development <br />of other river basins in Colorado and that it will also seriously consider <br />the advisability of approving the project until there has been a more <br />careful weighing of the benefits to be attained against the burdens of <br />evaporation which must be born. We have not had the advantage of being <br />put in possession of the most recent preliminary reports of the Bureau <br />of Reclamation, but believe there are factors which might profitably be <br />gone into by the B~ard's engineers and those employed by the Denver <br />Water Department. <br /> <br />I <br />