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<br />increase our efficiency: <br /> <br />1. Additional water. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />2. Line our 90 miles of distribution <br />canal. But at this time the cost is too <br />astronomical. <br /> <br />3. place an impervious membrane over <br />the floor of our reservoir. <br /> <br />4. Construct an impervious cutoff wall <br />along our 6-1/2 mile dike. <br /> <br />5. Pump our deliveries from the under- <br />ground portion of our reservoir. <br /> <br />6. Transfer our storage decree to a <br />tight reservoir. <br /> <br />Let's look at both sites, one by one. <br />First, the Narrows. As it has been explained, <br />the only plan that has any offer at all for <br />Riverside is to keep our existing system and <br />install a pump in the Narrows Dam for supple- <br />mental water only. Even this method carries <br />no guarantee for water every year; for example, <br />if the Narrows Dam had been built 3 years ago <br />and filled, with the past two years of short- <br />ages the Narrows Dam would be dry now. If you <br />do not have water you do not have a project. <br />It would be very hard for me to try and con- <br />vince people to enter into a contract for 50 <br />years for water that cannot possibly be there <br />every year. <br /> <br />Second, if the Weld County Dam were in, <br />the same thing would occur. The dam would now <br />be out of project water with these exceptions: <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Riverside has filled to capacity the past <br />three years. We have run in the excess of our <br />decrees of 110,000 acre-feet per year. This <br />was to take care of, in part, our losses. If <br />this loss had not existed, this water would be <br />available for users downstream by controlled <br />measures through the Weld County dam. <br />