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<br />2.1.1 Projects Not Considered In Detail as Alternatives <br /> <br />2.1.1,1 Wolf Creek Reservoir <br /> <br />2.1.1.1.1 Wolf Creek Reservoir's proposed location Is 18 miles (29 <br />~) northeast of Rangely. The dam site Is such that a reservoir with <br />capacities from 50,000 to 105,000 acre-feet (ol.7xl0o to 129.5xI0om3) <br />could be built economically. Due to the potential for constructing a <br />larger reservoir at the site when additional water demand requires It, <br />Water Users Association No.1 desires to construct a smaller dam <br />elsewhere to meet Immediate needs. Insufficient water demand and lack <br />of funding make the planning and construction of Wolf Creek Reservoir <br />uncertain In the near future and thus not considered as an <br />alternative. <br /> <br />2.1.1.2 Yellow Jacket Reservoir <br /> <br />2.1.1.2.1 The Yellow Jacket Project, as originally proposed and <br />decreed, would be developed to supply water primarily for nunlclpal <br />and Industrial uses and for the Irrigation of lands In the vicinity of <br />Meeker. I tis cons I dered a feas I b 1 e proj ect, but cont I nues to be <br />Involved In environmental controversies. Therefore, It Is difficult <br />to predict when and In what configuration this project would be <br />author I zed. <br /> <br />2.1.1.2.2 The Yellow Jacket Project would require congressional <br />approval If constructed under the auspices of the Colorado River <br />Storage Project Act with part repayment coming from the Upper Colorado <br />River Basin Fund. Currently there Is a proposal pending between the <br />Yellow Jacket Water ConservatIon District and a consortium of <br />approximately 15 011 shale and coal companies to build certain <br />features of the Yellow Jacket Project. Under this arrangement the <br />consortium and the State of Colorado would make the repayment. <br /> <br />2,1.1,2.3 Water Users Association No.1 considers the Yellow Jacket <br />Project to be too far upstream to provl de the same recreat lonal and <br /> <br />6 <br />