BOARD01541

• Board Meeting Date: 1/24/2006
• Description: WSP Section - Statewide Water Supply Initiative
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Enhances South Platte, Rio Grande, and Colorado River endangered species;

. Increases reliability and quality of limited state and regional water supplies;

. Integrates and increases productivity of existing water supply systems;

. Provides strong incentives for cooperation between historically competing basins;

. Diverts only 13% of untapped Gunnison River's native flows;

. Optimizes Gunnison and Black Canyon flows for fish and recreation;

. Front Range cities can cooperatively share CCP's 10 to I benefit-cost expectations;

. Permitting and construction can soon be completed in four self-funding phases;

. Reduces annual evaporation losses, i.e. 1.5 ft. vs. 7.0 ft. from Lake Powell;

. Gravity deliveries can recharge state's declining aquifers during long wet cycles;

. Annual peaking power revenues will offset spring pumping and filling costs;

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Urban and rural water user costs will decline instead of escalate;

. Increased water productivity can offset potential shortages from global warming;

. Serves as model high storage project to solve escalating Western water crisis;

. Solves Bureau's projected flood failures for Taylor Park, Blue Mesa, and Pueblo Dams.

Thank you for considering these comments and CCP's advantages in your EIS for SDS.

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Dave Miller, President

EncI: Summary pages of Bureau's 1988 Economic & Feasibility Study ofCCP Phases I & 2,

cc: Gale Norton, Secretary of Interior; Mike Johanns, Secretary of Agrieulture; John Keys,
Commissioner, USBUREC; Carol DeAngelis, Bureau Western Colorado Area Manager; Lt.
Gen. Carl Strock, Chief Anny Corps of Engineers; Stephen Johnson, EPA Administrator; Russell
George, Director, CO Dept.ofNatural Resources; Don Ament, Commissioner, CO Dept. of
Agriculture; John Struthers, CO Attorney General; Bill Owens, Governor of Colorado; Colorado
Congressional Delegation; and Congressional Resources Committees.