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<br />29 <br /> <br />~- <br /> <br />1 saw that memOraM\1DI neB I was in Wash1ngto~ the Cal1fornia- <br />Colorado Biver Board objected to theCollbran proJeot. <br />MR. METZGER: latu}'a11y.. <br />MR. STQNE: They are obJeoting to any development, <br />ap~arently! in the Upper Basin. The exouse for the objection <br />was the use of the lnterest component of power revenues. Thls <br />Board approved, 1f you r~member) the Collbran ProJeot report <br />with that kind of finance. The construction of that proJeot at <br />an early Clate is 'urgent. The reason 1s that thegrGwlng City <br />ot, Grand Junction w111 soon be out of munic1pal water. !fhat <br />c1 t1 now gets its water trOlll ICannah Creek. fhe city has spent <br />" <br /> <br />i - <br />'\ <br /> <br />$300,000 1n reoent months to improve the ICannah Oreek <br />supplles; but wlth that lncrease of supply whlch comes Clown. <br />otf Grand. Mesa they. estimate they will have a water supply of <br /> <br />not to exceed three years. <br /> <br />MR. McCORMIOK: The ind1catlons ars that this.year <br /> <br />theyl~e going to 'be short because the reservoirs up there are <br />not :ti1l1ng. <br />MR. STONE: Th1s project w111 provide 6000 ac:re feet <br />of water for Grand Junction ~d immediate vicinity. .. Someot <br />you DUly not know--and lt I don't correctly state this, Mr. <br />McOormiok may correct me--thatevenin the w1ntert1me the <br />stock men in theimmediatevicin1ty ot Grand Junction do not <br />baveetock water. They have to haul a good deal of their <br /> <br />stock water. Am I correct in that etatemenU <br />