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<br />r'"' <br />,'"-' <br /> <br />;', .... <br /> <br />....., <br /> <br />and others in Rifle Valley for domestic purposes have been <br /> <br />taken as 200 acre-feet per month. <br /> <br />Some question has been raised as to the effect of the <br /> <br />Rifle Gap Plan on the quality of Rifle Creek water for domestic <br /> <br />use. Interests below Rifle Gap Reservoir point out that with the <br /> <br />summer flow of East Rifle Creek largely diverted to the Silt <br /> <br />Project the domestic supply to Rifle Valley would be largely <br /> <br />from storage which they claim would impair the quality of the <br /> <br />water for domestic use. They contend also that West Rifle <br /> <br />Creek water is less desirable than that of East Rifle Creek <br /> <br />and suggest the construction of a pipe line fram Middle <br /> <br />Rifle Creek to bypass Rifle Gap Reservoir and supply domestic <br /> <br />water to Rifle Valley residents and possibly to the to~m of <br /> <br />Rifle which owns stock in Rifle Canyon Canal representing <br /> <br />about 1.5 second-feet of flow. Proponents of this plan claim <br /> <br />that the water of Middle Rifle Creek is of better quality for <br /> <br />domestic use than that of either East or West Rifle Creek. <br /> <br />It is not believed that storage in Rifle Gap Reservoir <br /> <br />will injure the water for domestic use as storage usally <br /> <br />50 <br />