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<br />, <br />~ <br />o <br /> <br /> <br />j NEBR <br /> <br />:- <br />~, <br />-W- <br /> <br />. <br />COLORADO RIVER WATER <br />CONSERVATION DISTRICT <br /> <br />-1- -N{W- -MEXICO--IQKlA <br /> <br />-/ <br /> <br />GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO <br />303/945-85221 P,O, BOX 1120/81602 <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br /> <br />March 20, 1985 <br /> <br />I:dfJ~ <br />IJ//< 7&<'.. <br />i/l ?,./~l<'), <br />G!.t /~1,? ') , 0(f?p~ <br />C ,((; ""'.? "1." ~~"" <br /><41/0, '<Or. ,/lJO, 0J'-; ,I <br />~uf'I?J:r%1Do v u, f <br />I~/I" t <br />.Ih, '1/4); <br />'-IV <:ih ~-? <br />"". <br />which wil1}:> <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br />GLENWOOD SPRINGS <br /> <br />A supplementary agreement, <br /> <br />provide Western Colorado with a $13.5 million reservoir <br /> <br />has been hammered out by Eastern and Western Colorado <br /> <br />interests. <br /> <br />The <br /> <br />agreement <br /> <br />was <br /> <br />reached <br /> <br />by <br /> <br />the <br /> <br />Municipal <br /> <br />Subdistrict <br /> <br />of <br /> <br />the <br /> <br />Northern <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservancy <br /> <br />District and Western Colorado entities: <br /> <br />Colorado Ri ver <br /> <br />Water Conservation District, Grand County, Northwest Colorado <br /> <br />Council of Governments and Middle Park Water Conservancy <br /> <br />District. <br /> <br />"We believe water users on both sides of the divide <br /> <br />were well served by the initial agreement in 1980 and now, <br /> <br />by this supplementary agreement," Roland C. Fischer said. <br /> <br />Fischer, <br /> <br />secretary-engineer of the west slope's <br /> <br />River District, said that in place of the previously proposed <br /> <br />Azure Reservoir on the main <br /> <br />stem Colorado River near <br /> <br />Kremmling, a better alternative, one of the following, will <br /> <br />be built to compensate Western Colorado for the Windy Gap <br /> <br />transmountain diversion: <br /> <br />Rock Creek Reservoir on Rock Creek <br /> <br />in Grand County; Wolford Mountain Reservoir on Muddy Creek <br /> <br /> <br />... <br />