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<br />The lengths of pipeline required to convey water from storage to the tunnel <br />range from none at the Sawmill Mountain site to 85,000 feet for the <br />multiple-reservoir plans. Four of the alternatives include pump lifts to <br />convey water to the tunne 1. Avery and Mi 11 er Creek wou 1 d requ i re 250 feet <br />of lift, Warner Point a 410-foot lift, and the M&I-only plan a 700-foot lift. <br /> <br />The northside pipeline in the Little Beaver Creek area would provide water <br />for a sprinkler irrigation network and sufficient water for a 500-MW <br />coal-fired power plant northeast of Meeker. The pipeline capacity would be <br />about 90 cfs. The southside pipeline would provide water for sprinkler <br />irrigation only on the south side of Little Beaver Creek and have a capacity <br />of 30 cfs. A lateral pipeline system to distribute the water within the <br />irrigated area and to the coal water delivery point is included in the costs <br />of the alternatives, but not listed in the physical data. The M&I-only plan <br />has a system for conveying water from the White River directly to the coal <br />delivery point. <br /> <br />Avery Reservoir <br />The Avery Reservoir alternative WQuld require increasing the capacity of the <br />existing Lake Avery. This reservoir would be Ipcated on Big Beaver Creek <br />and would require a new dam constructed at the present site of Big Beaver <br />Dam. The new embankment would have a height of 215 feet. The total storage <br />capacity would be over 60,000 acre-feet, 55,000 acre-feet of which would be <br />active. The enlarged reservoir would be approximately 1000 feet from the <br />White River. A diversion dam located on the North Fork approximately three <br />miles upstream of Buford would divert flows into a pipeline to convey water <br />by gravity about four miles to the reservoir. The pipeline would parallel <br />the river and highway to Avery Reservoir. <br /> <br />Delivery of irrigation and industrial coal water would require a pumping <br />plant located on the west side of the reservoir. The pumping plant would <br />discharge into a 60-inch pipeline, approximately two miles long, up Big <br />Beaver Creek to the tunnel. Oil shale and municipal water would be released <br />through the outlet works to Big Beaver Creek and the White River for <br />diversion downstream. <br /> <br />IV-5 <br />