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<br />30 <br /> <br />HR. MoCORKICK: Absolutely oorrect, because the irriga- <br />t10n systems there don tt run water in the winter and stook <br />water ls not supplled. <br />MR.. STONE: This project w111 provide domestic supplies <br />not only for the City of Grand.Junct1on but for a conslderable <br /> <br />,;~ <br />part of the !'Ural area ln the vicin1ty of Grand Junction. <br /> <br /> <br />It also provides, as you v111 note there, hydro.electric energy. <br /> <br />"The project 1s designed to provide supplemental water <br /> <br />supplies tor 18,340 acres of preeently~irrigated land and for <br /> <br />2,310 acres of new land. It v111 have an installed power <br /> <br />capaoUy of 7400 kilowatts; and it v111 prov1de 10,300 acre <br /> <br />feet of Water for domestic use,' Correct my former statement <br /> <br />when I sald 6000. ......for Grand Junction and rural areas in <br /> <br />the vic1nity thereof. The est1mated proJeot cost is $13,300,000. <br /> <br />The project oons1stsot a reservoir w1th 30,000 aore feet oapac1ty <br />In. the Plateau Valley, a canal and pipeline carrying water to <br />a point above Pallllade where the water 1s dropped to the valley <br />floer.' <br /> <br />I had a conference with CongreB8ma.n Aspinall aada <br />representat1ve of the Bureau of Reclamation 1n an effort to <br />get this project before the eoDt~el!lliat the present seeslon. <br />The project w111 have to be approved and passed by the Budget <br /> <br />, <br />Bureau. . It 18 ant1c1pated that that v111 take oonsiderable <br />t1me. It seems to be the op1n10n of Congressman Asp1ull odc <br /> <br />the Bureau and those very close to the matter-1t 1s also my <br />