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<br />97 <br /> <br />Denver's position and request are relatively simpJe' in principle: <br /> <br />1. .The metropolitan Denver area and its need for water are <br />growing and will continue so to grow. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />2. Denver nrn, has the financial burden of retiring its general <br />obligati04 bonds issued to build a 30-million-dollar capital expansion <br />program for its water system which is nearing completion and the <br />additional financial burden of a 46-million-dollar program which is <br />being started. This 76-million-dollar obligation is being assumed <br />under the city's mvn credi~ or earnings \Yithout state or federal aid. <br /> <br />3. By 1960, when the city's own program is complete, Denver <br />viill have exhausted, for its and its neighbor's use, the City's <br />Platte River, Fraser River and Williams River resources. The <br />metropolitan area's population, its obligations to national defense, <br />its commercial and industrial requirements will all then demand water <br />from the only possible additional source -- the Blue 3iver. <br /> <br />4. To have this water available when needed, there must be <br />taken steps immediately to construct a 23-mile tunnel from Dillon to <br />Grant. This tunnel cannot be expected to be completed earlier than <br />about 1963. <br /> <br />5. Because of the city's other present financial burdens for <br />water development, because of the requirement for the water by all <br />the metropolitan area where a substantial percentage of the state's <br />population is located, and because of the special requirements by <br />federal agencies, military bases, and national defense and atomic <br />uses, the Blue River project should be financed by interest-free <br />loanp from the federal government. <br /> <br />The resultant benefits to the whole state and the urgent <br />need of a great number of its citizens in this area warrant the <br />united support of the whole state and, when granted, that same <br />united support of all sections of Colorado can then be given to the <br />proposals which ,vill then be before Congress. <br /> <br />Mayor Newton then called upon Mayor Shulenburg of Arvada. <br /> <br />Mayor Shulenburg stated that he had been delegated to express <br />to the Board the views of the cities, tmvns and communities of the <br />metropolitan area of Denver in this matter. He discussed the vast <br />expansion which has taken place in the suburban areas, citing Arvada <br />as one exa~ple. He stated that the metropolitan. areas are 100 per <br />cent behind Denver in its request that the Blue River Project be <br />made a part of the Colorado River Storage Project; that they believe <br />that the Blue River Diversion Project is vital to the entire <br />metropolitan area; that it is necessary to solve the water problem <br /> <br />I <br />