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JJ:;JV Reservoir. Now the scheme has been modified to the extent that we have one power plant at Elbert and one power plant at otero, on the north shore of Clear Creek Reservoir. The original installed capacity of the I seven plants was 123,900 kilowatts. The pro- . posed installed capacity of the two plants nm'l in the plans is 111,000 kilm'latts, a minor reduction but still essentially the same gen- eration capacity as proposed in the original plans. There is a real significant difference in this power system; that difference being a change in type of generation. The old original plan with seven plants was essentially a base- load plan, continuous operation and providing a reasonably high load factor in selling kilowatt hours to the customers. The new scheme provides for a modified operation which includes the technique of pump-back storage. By pump-bad. storage I mean that you end up by generating for a relatively short period during the day during the five days in the week when you have peak demands for energy in the late afternoon and early evening. This means that this forebay at the head of this.penstock serves a real vital purpose in that it collects water, which is coming down through the canal during 18 hours of the day, we'll say. This stored water is then released through the penstock and power plant during the peak period of sb: hours \'lhen that addi- tional generating capacity can be ma~.eted at premium rates. One of our big problems was that we didn't have enough water coming down through our project system. The project imported waters and additional flows that we could pick I up out of the Arkansas, and existing flows coming out of the C.F.& I. Steel Corporation storage were not sufficient to provide for the total operation of the Elbert Power Plant which is nO"l being designed for 100,000 kilo- watts of capacity. We didn't have enough project water and other direct flows to operate