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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />not to come to fruition, these entities would turn to their <br />only alternate source of water which would be a rapidly in- <br />creased transfer of agricultural waters to municipal and <br />industrial use. Such a demand on the present market for <br />water in northeastern Colorado would drive the price of <br />Colorado-Big Thompson water and other agricultural water <br />sources to an extremely high level, probably to a level <br />of $4,000 per acre-foot unit versus $2,150 per acre-foot <br />unit at the present time. This would create hardship on <br />both agricultural water users within the area and the <br />municipal water users as well. A deliverable yield of <br />44,000 acre-feet is anticipated from the Windy Gap Project <br />based upon Bureau of Reclamation studies summarized in the <br />draft environmental impact statement. The Municipal Sub- <br />district expects the yield to be several thousand acre-feet <br />higher. <br /> <br />This description of the Northern Colorado Water <br />Conservancy District and its Colorado-Big Thompson Project, <br />and the MunicpalSubdistrict and'its Windy Gap Project, <br />have been presented to underscore the extreme importance <br />to Colorado and its citizens of continuing to develop the <br />State's share of Colorado River water. The Northern District <br />and its Municipal Subdistrict endorse the guiding principle <br />of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum: <br />that the Upper Basin States, includ~ng Colorado, shall be <br />allowed to develop their share"'ofcompact apportioned <br />Colorado River water while the seven Basin States, together <br />with the Federal Government, work towards a goal of keeping <br />salinity levels in the Lower Basin States at the flow weighted <br />average of 1972 levels. <br /> <br />-7- <br /> <br />1461 <br />