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<br />8/20/72 <br /> <br />Draft of Reply to Paper by <br />Dr. James R. Guadagno <br /> <br />O{" It <br /> <br />On Sunday, July 30, 1972 the Denver Post carried a feature <br /> <br />,story about a report by Dr. James R. Guadagno, a metallurgist <br /> <br /> <br />employed by Wright-McLaughlin Engineers of Denver, ". . . a nationally <br /> <br />knO\ffi water resources consulting firm," to the Colorado Open Space <br /> <br />Council. The subject of Dr. Cuadagno's report was the lawsuit pending <br /> <br />in the U. S. District Court for Utah, C.A. No. C-166-71, filed by <br /> <br />Friends of the Earth, the Wasatch Mountain Club, and Kenneth C. Sleight <br /> <br />against the Secretar,y of the Interior and Commissioner of Reclamation <br /> <br />seeking to prevent the filling of Lake Powell, a storage reservoir of <br /> <br />the Colorado River Storage Project, to an elevation exceeding 3600 feet <br /> <br />above sea level, or 100 feet below the water level for which Glen Canyon <br /> <br />Dam has been designed and constructed. According ,0 ,he Denver Post <br /> <br />article, Dr. Gu~dagno claims that a resolution passed by the Colorado <br /> <br />Legislature urging Governor Love, the Attorney General, and the Colorado <br /> <br />Water Conservation Board to aggressively defend Colorado's interests <br /> <br />in the Colorado River was based upon "erroneous information and inade- <br /> <br />quate study . . <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />. . <br /> <br />An examination of Dr. Guadagno's written report entitled "The <br /> <br />Water Level of Lake Powell and Its Meaning to the State of Colorado" <br /> <br />to the Water Workshop--Colorado Open Space Council reveals his con- <br /> <br />QLusions that: (1) the State of Colorado should immediately withdraw <br /> <br />its intervention in Friends of the Earth, et ale v. Secretary of the <br /> <br /> <br />Interior, et al., and (2) initiate a thorough study, to be conducted <br /> <br />by competent water consultants, of all factors involving the effects <br /> <br />on Colorado of maintaining certain water levels in Lake Powell, . . . ." <br />