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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Wednesday, March 10, 1993 <br /> <br /> <br />EMPiRE- <br />rw.~""~J".; <br /> <br />!5~ANDJUNCnON- ..." <br /> <br />. WATER PLAN OPPOSEW'"" <br />- A plan by Chevron-Gelty. " <br />Oil to export up to 200,000 <br />acre-feet of Colorado River <br />water annually to Nevada for <br />30 to 50 years is being op- <br />posed by the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board, <br />"Tbis scheme is the worst <br />attempted water grab since ,. <br />theAW- . <br />DIex- <br />propria- <br />tion <br />effort in <br />the San <br />Luis Val.; <br />ley," said <br />board <br />member <br />Robert <br />Jackson <br />oJ Puell- <br />Norton 1'3, in a <br />strongly worded statement- <br />opposing the plan, <br />However, on urging by Col- <br />orado Attorney Gene,ral Gale <br />Norton, the seven-member <br />board went on recor'd only to <br />oppose the lease to 'the extent <br />it is the same as a previous <br />objectionable bid b,y the so-- <br />called Galloway Group to ex. <br />port water to San !Diego, <br />Calif. <br />Nevada would .build a res- <br />ervoir on Roan Creek, a tribu- <br />tary of the Color'ado River 20 <br />miles east of Gr'and Junction, <br />for the oil shale, companies, <br /> <br /> <br />