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<br />I <br /> <br />mostly flood water. To be effective this may <br />have to be stored for a relatively long period <br />of time. The ideal situation would be to put <br />it in jugs, cork, and set aside for the inevit- <br />able drouth periods. A 40 c.f.s. seepage rate <br />is 30,000 acre-feet a year, almost 1/2 of the <br />anticipated 69,000 acre-feet diversion planned <br />for the Fry-Ark, the diversion of which is a <br />large part of the $175 million estimated cost <br />of that project. The proposed North Sterling <br />Pump at an additional cost of $4 million would <br />be unnecessary if either Weld County or Narrows <br />did not have seepage losses. <br /> <br />I want to divert just a little bit at this <br />time to point out some other things. The <br />cross section area on what is known as the <br />Weld County site (using the maps again) is <br />factual from the latest things that have been <br />put out. For some unexplained reason, I guess <br />it is needed, we needed the scales shown out <br />there and those are our scales, the yellow <br />portion on the Narrows damsite is not continued <br />over to the rise in the bedrock to the right <br />abutment. One of the reasons for that is that <br />the yellow line gets progressively deeper and <br />deeper and it would extend completely off this <br />sheet so we can assume from this that the whole <br />right abutment is exposed. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I might point out a little bit about stabil- <br />ity at the present time. I do know that there <br />are some irrigation wells that are large in <br />this area of this abutment that are now pump- <br />ing sand and we are assured that a stable <br />reservoir can be built. Any time that a well <br />pumps sand that means there is piping of some <br />sort occurring down in there or it wouldn't <br />draw the sand. So since we have those sort of <br />things, we have got to examine pretty closely <br />whether or not we can build a stable reservoir <br />upon that. Many of you took the tour and you <br />saw the wells up under the Riverside and the <br />Riverside is built upon this same shelf mater- <br />ial only more of it than is shown on the weld <br />County site. There is no evidence of sand or <br />pumping or anything of that kind at that point. <br />