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<br />I <br /> <br />HR . S~!ITH : <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />7 '443 <br /> <br />If I had the slightest inkling Denver had that <br />in mind, I would never have agreed. A great <br />number of these participating projects in <br />Western Colorado are vulnerable to transmountain <br />diversion which will adversely affect them. <br />This leads to the conclusion that one of two <br />courses is open to Western Colorado - either <br />through the offices of the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board to negotiate with these people <br />or western Colorado must by all possible means <br />oppose every effort for transmountain diversion. <br /> <br />I am firmly convinced there are alternates to <br />these schemes of Denver. Any study we have had <br />under consideration was halted when Denver <br />announced she was going to build the enlarged <br />Williams Fork. I think you can see I am talking <br />from the standpoint of the Parshall Project. <br /> <br />I have seen attorneys and engineers in great <br />numbe'rs spend time and taxpayers' money in <br />litigation. I have seen a bitterness develop <br />between Denver and the Western Slope. I would <br />like to ask the Colorado Water Conservation <br />Board to see to it that in the future when such <br />things develop they sit down and work out plans <br />so Western Colorado can live even if Denver <br />gets what she needs. I would like to see the <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board adopt a <br />policy which would see if we can work out a plan <br />that is for the good of everyone. I believe <br />Hr. Smith of the Conservancy District can give <br />the figures b show what the loss of the Parshall <br />Project will do to Western Colorado." <br /> <br />"The development of the Parshall Project would <br />provide for the irrigation of new land and also <br />provide some supplemental water. The U.S. <br />Bureau of Reclamation plan had a reservoir of <br />40,000acre feet capacity at the Ute Park site. <br /> <br />The plan would provide for irrigation of <br />24,500 acres of new land and 3100 acres of supplemental <br />land. The Williams Fork Reservoir constructed <br />by the City o/Denver, has a capacity of about <br />6600 acre feet. This was built as a replacement <br />feature for the Jones Pass Diversion. During the <br />20 years since the Jones Pass sy.tem has operated <br />it has developed only about 7,000 acre feet <br />on the average per year. It is planned by the <br />City of Denver to expand the present collection <br />system of the City of Denver and take the water <br />through the Jones Pass Tunnel and re-divert <br />through a tunnel to Vasquez Creek and then back <br />through the Hoffat Tunnel to the City of Denver. <br />