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<br /> <br />'" <br /> <br />A <br /> <br />RECEIVED <br />JUl 3 11995 <br /> <br />Fax <br /> <br />Colorado Water <br /> <br />Jul 31 08:25 <br /> <br />.~ <br />. ter- <br /> <br />~ ~";::':;'~..l;~:::':"';':;~~':~'.f~~"~-:~:!'" ~'--; ,."....:J:' ;;:.~/,,:,:: <br />~ ~II""''' , .-. - <br />~ U&...N....ln.. ' <br />Auru-t, 19811 Vol. II, No. I ., .ftd Ih r...h..... ....ftd.lloft Ptl"". . <br /> <br />Fax' <br /> <br />Win-win at Wolford Mtn. is cause <br />to question demise of dam-building <br /> <br />KHEMMLING, Colo. - As it <br />nears completion, the Wolford Moun. <br />tain Projed, which has been de- <br />scribed al a dam 10 good that even <br />environmentalists declined to oppose <br />it, i. conaidered a pattern for future <br />high-altitude water storage projects <br />in Colorado. Proponents of projects <br />luch al Wolford Mountain are even <br />saying that the death of the dam. <br />building, era might indeed have been <br />exaggerated, and that Colorado <br />needs additional impoundments to <br />keep ita deeded water rrom flowing <br />down the Colorado River. <br />The $47.mmion Wolford Mountain <br />project, which charismatically com- <br />bines recreation with water storage, <br />will store 60,000 aCfe feet of wa tel' <br />on Muddy Creek, a tributary of the <br />Colorado River. The project is fi- <br />nanced by the City of Denver and a <br />$20 million Joan from the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board. In reo <br />t.11T1\ for helping t.o finance the proj- <br />ect, which will be officially completed <br />in October, Denver will be pennitted <br /> <br />to store wnter ill the re!lervoir, allow- <br />ing later diversion to the Front <br />Range. In addition, there are local <br />economic benefit" from recreation, <br />There are t.hose who believe that <br />the success story of Wolford Moun- <br />tain is one that should be repeated <br />in other high valleys of Colorado. <br />Misguided federal programs and <br />downriver intereslll are rapidly <br />claiming Colorado's water future, <br />said Allen (Dave) Miller, a water <br />st.orage proponent from Palmer <br />Lake, Colo. "About a million acre <br />feet of water, or a third of Colorado' a <br />legal share of the Colorado River <br />Compact, is now being lost during <br />heavy snowmelt years to storage and <br />growth in Arizona, California, and <br />Novada," according to Miller. This <br />"tragic loss," he added, is worsening <br />because of the long-term shift from <br />irrigated farming to tourism. <br />"The multiple use and reuse val. <br />ues of high-altitude storage are <br />worth billions of dollars for Colorado <br />nnd the entire We!!l,." nol.erl Miller. <br />