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<br />Hardin <br />Draft <br />1/5/83 <br /> <br />Mr. Ted L. Strickland <br />President of the Senate <br />Colorado General Assembly <br />State Capitol <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br /> <br />Mr. Carl B. Bledsoe <br />Speaker of the qouse of Representatives <br />Colorado General Assembly <br />State Capitol <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br /> <br />Gentlemen: <br /> <br />Section 7 of S.B. 439, 1981 Session (Chapter 426, Session <br /> <br />Laws of Colorado 1981) authorized the Colorado Water Conservation <br /> <br />Board to conduct a study of the proposed Hardin Dam project. <br /> <br />This project would be located on the South Platte River about 25 <br /> <br />miles east of Greeley. The 80ard contracted with Dames and Moore <br /> <br />to perform the study, the executive summary for which is <br /> <br />enclosed. The full report is being printed now and will be <br /> <br />transmitted subsequently. <br /> <br />The study focused on a project yielding 100,000 acre-feet <br /> <br />from a reservoir having 400,000 acre-feet of conservation <br /> <br />storage, both with and without a flood control pool of 200,000 <br /> <br />acre-feet. The study indicates that such a dam and reservoir <br /> <br />would be technically feasible. <br /> <br />It is estimated that a project with 400,000 acre-feet of <br /> <br />conservation storage (but no flood pool) would cost, in constant <br /> <br />1982 dollars, $263,000,000 to construct. Accounting for <br /> <br />190 <br />dft/har <br />