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Donald Hamil, President of the Lower South Platte District: Eric Wendt, Secretary Manager; Reuben Peif, a member of the board.of the Lower South Platte District; Glenn Morgan, the mayor of Fort Morgan: Earl Franklin, the mayor of Sterling; Alex Michel, the superintendent of the North Sterling Irrigation District; Dick Ross, a director of I the Sterling Chamber of Commerce; Jim Latham, President of the Brush Chamber of Commerce; and Graydon Dowis, counsel in Sterling for the District. Maybe these gentlemen could all stand so that you can see them. Narrows dam and reservoir will be constructed approximately 6 miles west of Fort Morgan, 35 to 40 miles east of Greeley and approximately 75 miles northeast of Denver. The reservoir's location is.set ,out on a map attached to your statement. This map also shows in green lines the district's boundaries extending downstream from the Narrows dam and reservoir. The district itself was organized in 1964. It is the primary sponsoring and contracting agency for the project. The district contains 400,000 acres, 200,000 of these acres are irrigated. It has an assessed value of approximately $81,000,000. The district includes Sterling, Fort Morgan, Brush and 12 smaller communities within its boundaries. These communities have a population totaling more than 29,000 persons. A small part of the project's water supply will be used by the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District in an exchange upstream from the Narrows reservoir. Jim Smee, the executive director of that district, will make a short comment fol- lowing my presentation on what the Central Colorado District consists of and its plans for the use of the water that is allocated to it. The Narrows project was originally authorized as a unit of the Missouri River Basin Project in the Flood Control Act of December 22, 1944. In the late 40's preconstruction activities were commenced and houses were constructed. They were ready to build the Narrows, but there was an unfortunate controversy in the service area and con- struction was suspended. These problems, I am happy to report, and this board is aware, have been resolved now for a number of years. Local support is for all practical purposes now'unanimous and the project was re-authorized in August of 1970. The project consists principally of the Narrows dam and reservoir. It's an onstream structure. Its surface area at the level of the joint use pool is almost 15,000 acres and has a shoreline at that level of about 40 miles; The reservoir will extend 12 miles upstream from the dam and will average from 2 to 3 miles in width. We have also attached to the statement a land acquisition map. This was I -51-