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<br />-. <br /> <br />'-: ' <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />Mr. J. William McDonald <br />March 9, 1981 <br />Page Three <br /> <br />Successive water use may also provide a solution to a problem <br />of obvious concern to the Board; namely, whether it should be <br />funding storage for new irrigation projec.ts which, by themselves, <br />might not be considered "economically" efficient. Certainly, <br />agricultural users could nearly always be found to make use of <br />a portion of the water captured by a storage project. At the <br />February 11, 1981 meeting, however, some members of the Board <br />questioned whether storage construction for such uses could ever <br />be considered cost effective. If the economic feasibility of <br />a particular storage project were to be calculated not on a single <br />agricultural use of water, but instead on agricultural use preceded <br />or followed by domestic or industrial use of the initial or return <br />flow water (as the case may be), the cost benefit ratio might <br />well be altered in favor of the project. <br /> <br />Should the Board accept -the idea of successive use as an <br />important funding priority, it is equally important that it consider <br />comprehensive planning for such use as a precondition of funding. <br />Such planning is necessary to accomplish such successive use <br />in a cost effective and noninjurious manner. <br /> <br />We hope that our suggestions will aid the Board in establishing <br />guidelines for project funding which not only will meet the need <br />of putting Colorado's Compact shares to use, but which also will <br />insure that storage projects are not constructed merely for that <br />purpose, unrelated to an existing and definite series of present <br />needs. <br /> <br />Very truly yours, <br /> <br />MUSICK, WILLIAMSON & COPE, P.C. <br /> <br />By <br />John . Musick, Jr. <br /> <br />JDM:ckw <br />