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<br />,:'j <br /> <br />o <br />,") <br /> <br />,..... <br />~ <br />(0 <br /><..0 <br /> <br />the city, te the ceunty, te the state and te the whele ceuntry. <br /> <br />And what's more--seme ,of the energy preduced by the pumped water <br /> <br />. -~" <br /> <br />returns te ,operate the pumps and thus lift mere water--perpetual <br /> <br />metien yeu might say, but really it's better than perpetual metien, <br /> <br />as the water which prevides supplemental irrigatien fer 708,000 <br /> <br />,<' <br /> <br />acres ,of land alse prevides electric pewer fer use by irrigaters, <br /> <br /> <br />municipalities, and lecal industry. <br /> <br />The Granby Pumping Plant is lecated en the western slape <br /> <br />,of the CO:1tinental Divide en the nerth shere ,of Granby Reserveir <br /> <br />seme 100 miles nerthwest ,of Denver, Celorade. This reserveir has <br /> <br />been fer~ed by the censtructien ,of the 298-feat high Granby Dam, <br /> <br />which is'the main sterage facility fer the Celerade-Big Thempsen <br /> <br />'.,,-'.,' <br /> <br />Preject, and has a tetal capacity ,of 544,867 acre-feet ,of water. <br /> <br /> <br />The dam, lecated so as te intercept the maximum ameunt ,of fleed <br /> <br />water pessible in the area, is lewer than the Alva B. Adams Tunnel <br /> <br />which cenveys the water te the eastern slepe pawer plants and farm <br /> <br /> <br />lands, sa the water must be raised by pumping. <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />