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IV-4 I, m I I I I I I I I I II I I ' I. II I II I De 1 i very Systems The same water delivery system to the Upper Piceance Creek Basin was selected for seven of the eight alternat"ives. This system consists of a diversion anc pumping plant on the White River near the mouth of Sheep Creek. From there, the water would be pumped in three lifts to tne headwaters of Fourteen Mile Creek, a tributary of Piceance Creek. The total lift is over 1100 feet and the pipeline would be about 12 miles long, constructed adjacent to State Highways 13 and 789. The oil shale interests would be responsible for the conveyance of the water from the pipeline to their point of use. The Sheep Creek pipeline system would be included in all the interim alternatives ~xcept the one including the Powell Park Reservoir. For th,it alternative, /later would be pumped from the reservoir to a small reservoir located on th~ ridge south of the dam. From this reservoir, water would flow by gravity to a pipeline along the Dry Fork of Piceance Creek to the main stream, then upstream on Piceance Creek to Stewart Gulch. The Powell Park pipeline alternative is over twice the length of the Sheep Creek diversion, but the pumping lift is 200 feet less. The remaining water for oil shale would be left in the river for an a lternat i ves. Diversion by users is projected at the mouths of Piceance Creek and Yellow Creek. Municipal and domestic water was left in the river in all alternitives for diversion near the town of Meeker. The deli very ';ystem provid i ng water for i rri gat i on and to the potent i a 1 coal use location I~ould be common for many of the alternative plans. This system would include a 3000-foot-long tunnel through the Oak Ridge between the B',g Beaver and L ii:tle Beaver Creek Basins. The tunnel would discharge into a transition on the Little Beaver Creek side. The transition would deliver water to two pressure pipe systems - one about 14 miles long running northwest on I:he north side of Little Beaver Creek, and a second about six mi les long on the south side of the creek, running generally west. The irrigation and coal system delivery capacity would be 130 cfs for all alternatives except the M&I-only plan which would require only 20 cfs.