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.' I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Development of additional irrigated acreage is the focus of several recommended plan elements. The plan calls for the Water and Power Resources Service to proceed with construction of three major multipurpose projects--North Loup and O'Neill Units in Nebraska and the Narrows Unit in Colorado. Feasibility or appraisal studies are recommended for three other projects in the subbasin. Also, rehabilitation and betterment is recommended for the existing North Platte project. The Soil Conservation Service is called upon to implement seven irrigation-oriented watershed projects and to conduct irrigation water conservation studies in Colorado and wYoming. To address the serious problem of water supply for the Denver area, the subbasin plan recommends construction of the Foothills project, which includes a storage reservoir on the South platte River, a treatment plant, and related distribution facilities. The subbasin's rural water supply problems are addressed by the basinwide recommended program "Water Supply and Waste Water Disposal Systems" of the Farmers Home Administration. Finally, the recommended plan contains a number of proposals intended to increase the production of electric power for use within and outside the subbasin. One plan element is construction by the Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District of a hydroelectric plant at Kingsley Dam on the North Platte River in Nebraska. Feasibility studies are called for by the Water and Power Resources Service to investigate installation of hydroelectric facilities at the COlorado/Big Thompson Project and in the Cache la poudre River Basin. It is also reconunended that water and power conduct the "North Platte Hydroelectric Study" in wyoming, to look at pumped storage opportunities at the existing reservoirs. Finally, the plan calls for integration of wind turbine electric power generation into the existing hydroelectric system. 7-10