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<br />would be reversed and the drilling done by <br />our now standard irrigation well drilling <br />rigs, which drill an irrigation well in hours <br />instead of formerly weeks. The same savings <br />in time and personnel can be done here. This <br />type ,of cutoff would eliminate all excavation I <br />except stripping below the natural ground. The <br />cost of $5.00 per square foot is far less than <br />dewatering, excavating below ground and refill- <br />ing with impermeable material, compacting and <br />a long overhaul. <br /> <br />They fail also to explain why with a <br />larger reservoir (and I would like to point <br />out, that in the latest proposal the Weld <br />County Reservoir is a larger reservoir in total <br />capacity than the proposed Narrows Reservoir; <br />the conservation pool is some 20 percent larger <br />than the conservation pool proposed for the <br />Narrows; the strictly flood control is a little <br />bit smaller at Weld County than it is for the <br />Narrows; but I want to point out that the cost <br />of the Weld County is actually buying a larger <br />reservoir than it is at Narrows) and with but <br />4 ditches, which will not require over 1500 <br />cubic feet per second of water, the outlet <br />tubes must have 8400 cubic feet per second <br />rate at Weld County when 4,000 cubic feet per <br />second only is needed at Narrows. Breaking <br />it down for separate outlets for Riverside <br />and Bijou the same as for the Fort Morgan at <br />Narrows, we find $800,000 extra cost at Weld <br />County, because of increased size, unexplained, <br />and adding unnecessary frills in order to in- <br />crease the cost differential. <br /> <br />I take issue also with many misleading <br />statements to us and the Water Board. Con- <br />trary to the information to the Water Board I <br />in memorandum dated September 4, 1964, the <br />cross section, as finally determined by Wood- <br />ward-Clyde-Sherard and Associates, and the <br />seismic survey by the U. S. Bureau of Reclama- <br />tion, actually decreased the alluvial cross <br />section under Weld County from the speculative <br />cross section presented by the Bureau to the <br />steering committee in 1963. And, gentlemen, if <br />