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<br />acres to be irrigated. Based O!1l. the past rate of expansion, <br />we may anUcipate that 173,000 acres of this expansion will <br />take place within the next thirty-year period. <br />F:~om study of th e Hill Report and from a check with <br />Mr. J. R. Riter, who advised with Mr. Hill on irrigation <br />depletionll, it is concluded that the Hill Repert failed to <br />make any allowance for at least 266,000 acre feet of consumptive <br />use water as discussed above. This figure is greater by <br />66,000 acre feet than the Hill Report (Page 53) shows as a <br />total ava:.lable for future trans-moWltain diversion te Eastern <br />Celorado. <br /> <br />- 4 - <br />