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<br />proposed Two Forks Reservoir on the South Platte River upstre8fT1 from <br /> <br /> <br />Chatfleld Lake offers conslderDble potentlel for Imported water storage_ <br /> <br /> <br />AI9o, water supply studies conducted as a part of this study heve shown <br /> <br /> <br />that up to about 51,000 acre-feet of exls-tTng flood control storage In <br /> <br /> <br />Cha-tf' el d L-ake cou I d be converted to weter sUPP I y 5torege f f the f lood- <br /> <br /> <br />.,,~ter re1eetse schedule was modified. Another posstblltty for meetIng <br /> <br /> <br />future waTer needs Is by decreasrng demands through conservaTion <br /> <br />efforts, Includ{ng reduct~cns \n munlclpfl,l landscape watering and <br /> <br />Increased agrIcultural water use efflcrencJes. Agreements for exchange <br /> <br />01 municipal wasteweter effluent for raw agrlcultural water and outright <br /> <br /> <br />purchase of egrlculturel water rights will contJnue to supply some of <br /> <br /> <br />the Increasing munlclpal and energy water needs. <br /> <br />".' :.~~'>.~.Y: <br />..... <br /> <br />This report does not present a wrecammendedft plan for .meetlng <br /> <br /> <br />future water needs. Rather, the exISTing system Is subjected to several <br /> <br /> <br />levels of future demand stresses and Input-output modeling technlques <br /> <br /> <br />ore used to '1lustr8te possfble comblnatfons of projects and pol Ic{es ~o <br /> <br />meet future water demands +hrot.Jgh 2020. Comb I nat Ions of proJ ects and <br /> <br />pol Icy changes that woul d meeT e range of dBrMnds for 1980.. 2000, and <br /> <br />2020 are summarized In toble II whiCh appears later In this report. <br /> <br />The projects and po II cy ch~nges I nc I uded I n tab Ie' I.. or other <br /> <br /> <br />combinatIons of projects and pollcles which would also meet future <br /> <br /> <br />needs, would all have. drtferenT Jrnptlcts on the system ond environment. <br /> <br />AddrtJonal Imports fran the West Slope would cause erlvfrormental Impacts <br /> <br /> <br />on the West and East Slopes and would also affect the lower Colorado <br /> <br />. "Co <br /> <br />RIver basin states. <br /> <br />Conservat,on would require changes fn prevIous <br /> <br />water use practices and adjustments rn lIfestyles. Exchanges of water <br /> <br /> <br />rights frcrn the agrIcultural to other sectors wOLild result 'n acceler- <br /> <br />ated urban dIsplacement of agrlculture and declines In rural 11festylese <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br /> <br />"-_ -l <br />