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<br />" <br />c.) <br />{ ." <br /> <br />(...; <br /> <br />co <br />o <br /> <br />-7- <br /> <br />cubic feet per second at Estes Park. After the water passes through the <br /> <br />power plants. a portion of it will be stored in Horsetooth reservoir. for <br /> <br />use in the Cache la Poudre river basin. Part of the water will be stored <br /> <br />in Arkins reservoir. or its equivalent. and subsequently released for use <br /> <br />along the Big Thompson river. The balanoe of tile water will be stored in <br /> <br />Carter Lake for use in the Little Thompson and St, Vrain basins. <br /> <br />The original plan of the Bureau of Reclamation did not contem- <br /> <br />plate pondage above the power plants on the Eastern Slope. Without suoh <br /> <br />pondage the power generated by the Eastern Slope plants could be used <br /> <br />only as base load energy. The plan 'suggested herein contemplates the <br /> <br />dividing of the head of Power Plant No.1. as originally set up. into two <br /> <br />parts. thereby making available exi sting Marys Lake for pondage purposes. <br /> <br />Pondage is also contemplated for power plants Nos. 2 and 3. The existence <br /> <br />of the forebay storage is sufficient to make all the energy generated by <br /> <br />the project power plants available to take care of a commercial load hav- <br /> <br />ing a load factor of about 5210. <br /> <br />On the Western 81 cpe t he Green 110untain reservcir. having a <br /> <br />oapaci ty of 152.000 ac I'e-feet. is being oonstructed on the Blue river, <br /> <br />52.000 acre-feet of whioh will be used for replacement purposes and power <br /> <br />generation and 100.000 acre-feet for power generation. This reservoir <br /> <br />will impound surplus water from Blue River and will release that water <br /> <br />to the stree.m in such a way that all the water physically available to <br /> <br />the Colorado-Big Thompson Project can be diverted without interfering with <br /> <br />present or prospective developnents in Colorado along the Colorado River. <br /> <br />Paover plant No. 5 will be constructed at Green Nountain reservoir. <br /> <br />Table No. 6 in the appendix gives a desoription of the principal <br />