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Dr~T ~:::.~y Hit by Trout Group th ",..Ze5l"vpntuaIOt> . at a morl" comprel~ stud' onver \l'al~r needs. but fHI~ F""alef use objectives be do} Lf_lpoPUlatron. land use and arks project. nl" lie ore rushing into the Two The consen"ation g :~~;~ its waler rrq~~~~:~: ~~ l~e Water Board can , Sf' by its customers. g encouraging wise Pnor to thl" Jul}' wal Water Board to d I i>f bond election. TV asked th divl"rsion project foret~ ~nal decisions on its Eagle-P' e "We Ih' k '"'0 ~ears. mey In lhl' logical d '. ~rh wm take at leasl this ~~~l:;ntimak!~g process for Two rd~rado Council chairman "A t. me. sars Chris Crosby a 1ze lknver's water su' 'll'0-':e3r delay will not jeo . exceJJent J'ob 01 p' . pply. The "aler Board h" d p- anning and 'd" " one an net'ds and ""1" have an adt>quat pravl,mg for Den\'er's water TV questions ""bv m e s~pp y to last until J985 .. ~f enlargement of Chal~:~d ~r;:~e~atitln was oot giv~n 10 (' P ease the waler slora I Just south of Deover to a,Jtern~tjvt'$ such as IrjbUI~~ o:d. And i.t also wonders why ::,fat~d mU~ating the main strea~W~Ch would not neces- ns,', {',ration. a\e not bet>n given full Its t}'pical of the Waler . pleases, damn (or dam) the s~~ a!~ll~de of doing what it The loss of this South PI s, Weaver declares Forks would be . atte stream milea t' Wafer Board bus:W~:~~~:I\- b~fhfer blow in Jig~t of 0 o~~ Here the board has . ?" Fork, stream from, Roberts ~:~~n~zed much of ~e river down- ~ry and lea\'mg an insulting' . mpletely SPOIling il as a fi~h. ISm ,~I~ng U.S. 285. e} esort for thousands 01 mot~r- /'Iiow the}' leellhl.' did' th,l'}' channelized and ~ow ~~ d? a g~ enough job. First l\eB\'f"r charges. ey re gOing to do it again .. "1t's a Pt'rfec! e:tamoJf." f W ' Irresponsibility ~'hich the' 0 al.er Board environmental Forks." y re trymg to repeat at Two ~ ~ Dam Proposal A Nightmare , , , , , I , , .....m.w.................. By Charlie Meyers IN RECENT YEARS, more than 2,000 miles of COlorado streams have been lost to public fishing. The reasons for the decline are legion: pollution, closure of private land, highway construction abuses, water diver- sions, unconscienable land developments-and dams. H is this last cause which particularly raises the ire of the dedicated strf."am fjsherman. for inundating a stream be- neath hundreds of fl!'E't of water Is to doom it forever, And for Denver area stream fishermen, there's no dam quite so insidious as the proposed Two Forks Dam where the South Platte River and the North Fork of the South Platte join about 25 air miles southwest of Denver. This dam, whiC'h would be built at a cost of $200 million by the Bureau of Reclamation as part of thf." Denver Water Board's storage plans, would merely erase 30 miles of the most productive and heavily used stream fishing in the West. Good Fishing Waters Would Be Lost Water impounded by the towering Two Forks Dam would back reservoir waler all the way past the little town of Deckers. Dro...;ned en route would be the waters loved v.ith a passion by Front Range anglers. The Platte has been overused and abused, but still it contains one of the finest. most sophisticated wild trout popu- lations in the nation. Bul these and other wildlife values along the stream will be permanently eliminated should thf." Water Board and the Bureau or Redamation - hungry for thf." dam - building money to feed its bureaucratic survival twitch-have their way. That they are int!'nt on proceeding, bang tbe consequences, is evident by the fact that Reclamation bas rushed through a hurry-up environml'nlal impact study in only four months, The study originally was to ha\'e taken 18 months. The bureau's haste has been I'riticited roundly by Trout Unlimited, a national conservation organization headquar- tered In [)en\'er. "We suspect a rush coverup on tbis stud}'," charges Bob Weavl'r, executi\'l~ director of TV's Colorado Council. "It's apparent lhey've used only data readily available and that's bardly adequale. Ifs very important tbat a four.season study or the area lInd its uses be donp" , , ,