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<br />25. Using Navajo Reservoir will reduce the supply for the Navajo Nation. <br />Additional depletion in the Pine River area will further decrease the supply. What is your <br />position now that the Navajo Nation has rejected the use of the reseJVoir? <br />26. Contracts from Navajo ReseJVoir that are short-term (less than 10 years) are <br />not adequate for municipal and industrial supplies. Congressional action would be required <br />to approve long-term contracts for municipal and industrial use. AIe the opponents <br />prepared to support these contracts and is the Navajo Nation also prepared to accept the <br />changes? <br />27. Currently the Navajo NatioD and the State of New Mexico are discussing the <br />quantification of the rcscJVe water rights claimed by the Navajo Nation. How does this <br />proposal play into these critical discussions? <br />28. During dry years, wet water is not available in the Animas. How can the <br />municipal and industrial users in San Juan County exchange Animas water for San Juan <br />River water daily, as required by the New Mexico State Engineer, and still have enough <br />water to divert for use by the entities? <br />29. What was the estimated cost to develop the infrastructure to deliver the "ALP" <br />supply from the San Juan to entities that currently depend on the Auimas? <br />30. How does your alternative impact the consumptive uses upstream of New <br />Mexico? Is this a threat to existing New Mexico downstream users? <br />31. Navajo ReseJVoir is 011 the San Juan River. What is the estimated cost to <br />deliver the M&I water and to modify existing facilities to deliver this water durinl dry times? <br />32. How will the essential daily supply for the 100.000 residents of Northwest New <br />Mexico be assured? <br />33. Construction of storage in New Mexico requires offSet of evaporation, and the <br />proponent proposal evaporates a maximum of 2.700 acre-feet for ill uses in Ridges Basin, <br />not just New Mexico's part, We estimate an evaporative loss for the three sites needed in <br />New Mexico to yield the storage provided by the ALP revision at more than 5,000 acre-feet a <br />year. How will we offSet the loss? The beneficiaries share the evaporation i.u the <br />proponents' revision. Other losses will be included for the changes, and these must be <br />accounted as well. Do we in fact get additional water supplies? <br />34, During the 4% of years when water is short, the shortage will occur during <br />consecutive days. How will we obtain water from a dry Animas River to be replaced at the <br />contluence of the San Juan be releases from Navajo RcscJVoir? <br />35. Water in Navajo Dam is committed genera1ly to the Navajo Nation, Jicarrilla <br />Tribe, the San Juan-Chama Project, senior water right holders and the upper basin delivery <br />commitment to the lower basin. How will the modification of law be accomplished to allow <br />the use of Navajo RescJVoir? Will the opponents support the needed changes? <br /> <br />QUEmONS FOR PRIVATE CITIZENS RE CmZENS' PROGRESSIVE ALTERNATIVE <br />(MINORITY ALTERNATIVE) <br />36. On page 2 of the Citizens' Pt.~c:>>ive Alternative ("Minority Alternative") is <br />the statemen.t that: <br />We would like for it to be dearly understood tbat this document <br />represents a minority opinion, but, at the same time, that these <br />recommendations are In no lI'8y antithetical to the mlijor <br /> <br />9 <br /> <br />v,/0,'d 8S0V 998 ~0~ , <br /> <br />S3J~nOS3~ l~~nl~N ~o ld3G <br /> <br />~S:9, ~55,-~,-lJO <br />