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Study Team to prepare an independent cost estimate. The estimated capital cost of this project is approximately 5721 million. 8.3.7 Value of Water Based on a brief review of recent water transactions and estimated costs for projects currently being considered, front-range metropolitan areas are currently paying an up-front cost of 52000 to 510,000 per af of firm. yield. This broad range in cost is largely attributable to variations in the definition of firm yield, the location of and alternatives available to specific water users, and the immediacy of the need for the water. Because transactians at either extreme of this cost range are relatively infrequent, it appears that a reasonable value of new sources of municipal water is in the range of 53000 to $9000 per af. 8.3.8 Conclusion The Upper Taylor River Basin has the hydrologic potential to be the source of a transmountain diversion project that could deliver water to the South Platte River Basin or the Arkansas River Basin. The hydrologic yield of such projects depends on many technical and institutional considerations including, but not limited to, the water right used for the export and the instream flow requirements in the Taylor River drainage. A potential export project entails many conflicts with the holders of other water rights and with the operators of existing facilities. Using the Taylor Park Project as an example, the total capital cost ($300 million including east slope regulating storage) divided by an average annual yield of approximately 42,000 af results in a unit capital cost of about $7150 per af. This same project with the addition cf 58,900 af of average yield from the Blue Mesa pumping variation (100,000 af total average yield) results in a unit cost of about E5310 per af based on a capital cost of $531 million. These costs are within the range of costs being experienced by municipal and industrial users along the front range and indicate that a project with '-��