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<br />y DUANE THOMPSON ,~",,'..NegotiationsforaWesternSlopeReservoirbeganabout said the Colorado River district would profit more be-
<br />peclal to the Rocky Mountain News '- ~ . ~.. . _; ": seven years ago when the nq,rthern district began planning cause it would paid in one lump sum. other higher offers .
<br />" ' " , '.:>Windy, Gap, an $84 ,million project expected to divert: would have been paid in installments. " '
<br />VAIL -c Two Colorado water districts are close" to\,~ 48,000 acre-feet of water annually to the Front Range. An ' Although the Colorado River .district has not Setued on.;
<br />igning a $10.2 million agreement to build a reservoir on/ aCre-foot is-about 326 gallons. ",' "a reservoir site;' it Is looking at two dam sites near the :
<br />he Western Slope, officials from both said Monday. ,", " i ,In a 1981 court settlement, the northern district agreed Colorado River. " ',' " " - ,)
<br />''The cash setuement Is imminent, and we're about to< to build Azure Reservoir-on the Colorado River, but One, called Rock:ereek Reservoir, would be in Routt '
<br />:Iose on it," said pave Mott, a director of the Colorado;~;'stl1dies indicated the liydroelectrlc project was financially' County' between Gore Pass and McCoy, and the second ,;
<br />iiver Water Conservation District. ' "" ,,", ,', ." i ,< <~,';"::; impractical and also faced strong environmental opposi. site Is at Wolford Mountain, just north of Kremmling and i
<br />Mott said the agreement with the Loveland-based mu-,;;' tion. " " ';" Grand County. - "!
<br />ncipal subdistrict of the Northern Colorado Water Con.- \:", Last year, both districts retllrlled to the negotiating The board Of directors of the northern district has \
<br />;ervancy District needS only. a "stamp of approval" ~hen ~1able, With the northern district originally offering $10- . apJll'OVed the latest agreement, said the district's attor.
<br />the, fu)I, \j(!ardJDeets ,'1'.ue$layf,1n Glenwood Springs. '(t.~ liil11Ioa and tile. Colorado', River; district'\aslWfgJ f6l" $15 J ineY'~~obJ1,S;lrn<~~~"c;p!l!il!~~>al!;!kreement
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