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<br />:'~':ahe' Arapahoe County Com- In their latest setback, propo".
<br />,J,~-'" .- missioners decision this nents Of the reservoir fa, iled to con:
<br />:'.,;"e "week to let a group of vince a district court judge that the "
<br />'~' ;./ metro area.'water dis.' water they wished to store was
<br />tricts take over the fight to gain ap. even available in the 'quantities
<br />i~l:P1"oval for the $1 billion Union claimed, Other and bigger hurdles;
<br />'""Park reservoir project eases a dif-, including the federal permit pro.
<br />ficult political situation for the, cess, lie ahead. ..'
<br />county,~ut it ,doesn't bring ,the 'Even if all those obstacles could,
<br />- fast,growmg unmcorporated areas be surmounted the most formida-
<br />.of th~ coun!y any closer to a s~lu. ' ,ble problem ",' how ,to pay for the' I""
<br />..f~n,~?r their water problems,' mammoth project:"": could doom"
<br />.;ri,witining approval for Western ~ni,on ~~rk, '~urora 'lmd other plU' I
<br />,Slope 'reservoirs designed to serve mClpahtIes In Arapahoe County
<br />~Elast Slope water needs has never that .are s~ryed with their o~n wa.
<br />"irb~en an easy task.'In reCim(years, ,ter systems ,developet\ at the!ro~p. "
<br />,'it has become a kind of Mission 1m'" expense don t want to tax their CltI,...
<br />, i~ssible, The UnionParkreservoir zens a ~e~?nd time topr{)vid~,'YaT":
<br />~as to be constructed at a eleva, !er for resl~ents of f~~,f,~~tY~!ln'",
<br />"'$fun of 10000 feet about, 25, miles mcorporated area, "",.. ., ,'.' . "
<br />J5"e~st ofCr~sted Butte to '~ttr~ water We don't hold out much hope that
<br />;..J.r.6m ,the ~eadwateI'~ ofthe:"Ta~lor ' the, water districts ,will prevai,l in,
<br />',;.:n!yer,' which even, t~,~lly,gows,' mto ,thelrargUinimts, to'the, Colorado'
<br />.1l)eGunnison River:-The proposal Supteme Court; but the new list of,
<br />Jr8n into heavy fire' from environ, litigants does seem moreilPpropri.
<br />...mentalists, Western'Slope,water ate than 'the 'old, At least'now'the'
<br />",7i11Sersandfederal officials who expense of pursuing this 'project
<br />':~~eared ihvould reduce their abJIity will be borneby:those who stand to
<br />/(1~g~n~rate.ele~t~!falp?wer, :. be~f!t,.. " ~'; ,
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