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<br />and by a <br />others. <br />also. <br /> <br />I <br />trickle down, would end up hurting me and a lot of <br />The water needs for fish and wildlife are important <br /> <br />RESPONSE: We appreciate your concerns. The effects of <br />development alternatives are detailed in chapter 3 of the FEIS. <br /> <br />48. MR. BXLL BRDNNBR: The DEIS fails to a large degree to <br />consider all of the impacts that are foreseeable from this <br />project. The purpose and need is up in the air, only the desire <br />is established. A large part of the cost-benefit ratio is <br />dependent upon the contract between the water users and Mitex <br />which is a secret document...the best the proponents can come up <br />with is a 1.056-to-l benefit ratio. It is unconscionable that <br />secret data are used to make documents of this sort. <br /> <br />Data are presented in an unbalanced manner. <br />graph that is presented logarithmically and <br />changes in an understandable manner. <br /> <br />An example is a <br />does not show flow <br /> <br />The National Environmental Policy Act requires a wide range of <br />alternatives. All of the alternatives presented in the DEIS are <br />virtually identical. The one with the greatest impact is the one <br />that is preferred. <br /> <br />The study area is insufficient. It looks at a very narrow <br />portion of the local area; basically, Montrose County. It <br />ignores all of Delta County, from the confluence to the Town of <br />Delta. There are four ditch companies in that area that are <br />going to be impacted, and there is a thriving fishery in there <br />that is totally ignored in the document...also, eagles in this <br />area are ignored. <br /> <br />The assessments are inadequate...the effect on migratory <br />waterfowl and the effect of channelization and river control on <br />them. <br /> <br />The report indicates that the uncompahgre will become a tailrace, <br />the place where otters and eagles can go to live. On the other <br />hand, it is stated in the document that no fish will grow there. <br />This is confusing. <br /> <br />The document does not discuss likely encroachment of carp and <br />suckers. This is going to have an impact on what is going on, <br />and the assumptions, falsely outrageous as they are, are based on <br />computer models in which very controversial testimony by experts <br />that if you choose the right expert, you get the testimony you <br />want. <br /> <br />The benefit-cost ratio does not consider a county-wide impact or <br />the area-wide of what is going to happen. The $69 cost to a <br />rafter is low and also does not include things like motels, <br /> <br />p-34 <br />