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<br />: <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />The Board believes ~~at an enlarged Wilderness bounda-~ is an <br /> <br />attempt to prevent temporarily and perhaps permanently the use 0:: <br />waters lawfully appropriated by the Ci';:y of Denver which owns th.em. <br /> <br />Denver's intent to appropriate water from streams in ~~e area of <br /> <br />the proposed Eagle's Nest Wilderness is not modified by the obstacles <br />to physical development, which would.be imposed by an unnecessarily <br />large wilderness area. So long as Denver is able to pursue its fixed <br />intent with diligence, the water rights ~~emselves remain unimpaired. <br />It is the <llfficulty of maintaining ~~is diligence which causes the <br /> <br />problems. One must also consider the possilJili';:y of changes in the <br /> <br />organic law I and in the judicial interpretation ~~ereof, which may <br />occur during the time in which Denver is developing its water rights. <br /> <br />Reasonable men recognize that unreasonable postponement of necessary <br /> <br />work affects the economic life of the community, results in unnecessa-~ <br /> <br />expenditures for alternate works in lieu of the economical ones <br /> <br /> <br />heretofo:o:e designed by Denver and that an endless expense is created. <br /> <br />by a needless waste of energy consumed by unnecessary pumping L~ <br /> <br />this age when one of our key national priorities is the conservation <br />I <br /> <br />of energy. <br /> <br />The Board and its staff have been asked by members of t.'le <br /> <br /> <br />Colorado Congressional delegation and other interested pa~~es to <br /> <br /> <br />provide cost figures on alternatives to the Board's basic plan of <br /> <br /> <br />capturing the water by gravity flow. We provide these figures to <br /> <br /> <br />the best of our ability, noting that ~'le estimates are prelimina:y, <br /> <br /> <br />based on the. best engineering infor.nation available a."ld ~'1e judg::lent <br /> <br /> <br />of those experienced in ~'le development of water resource projects. <br /> <br />00741 <br />