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<br />4050 <br /> <br />Riverside can supply most of its needs if <br />it has a full reservoir and very little losses. <br />We realize that Riverside losses may be bene- <br />ficial to downstream users but it could be <br />much more beneficial if the return could be <br />controlled and used at the time of need. <br />There are a few senior decrees that have been <br />free-riding on this return water. <br /> <br />Riverside, Bijou and Weldon Valley have <br />made firm commitments to repay $7 million <br />over a fifty-year period for a service charge <br />to store our decreed water, but has had no <br />apparent effect except to increase the differ- <br />ence in cost of the two sites. <br /> <br />Riverside is now prepared to spend our <br />part of this money, one way or another to in- <br />crease the efficiency of our system. <br /> <br />If the dam is not built where we can <br />receive direct beneficial use, we are pre- <br />pared to install 25 wells of which 2 are <br />already in service and have been this last <br />growing season. <br /> <br />These wells have proved to be a very satis- <br />factory method of avoiding our present losses <br />by delivering through pumps from the subsurface <br />aquifer of our reservoir. <br /> <br />The pump method is our cheapest way to <br />retain our water. The lining of our reservoir <br />is much too costly and so is the cutoff wall <br />along our 6-1/2 miles of dike. <br /> <br />Our engineer will elaborate further on <br />the mechanics of this method and other features <br />later. <br /> <br />We feel that even with the so-called <br />difference in cost of the two sites, the upper <br />is the most beneficial to the mechanics of the <br />South Platte River and the people of Colorado. <br />If you, the members of the Water Board, feel <br />that you can completely ignore 1/3 of the water <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />