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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8221.110
Description
Juniper-Cross Mountain Project
State
CO
Basin
Yampa/White
Date
4/19/1978
Title
News Articles/Press Releases: 1978-1983
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<br />~ <br />0: <br />l'- <br />- <br /> <br />--r\=,.:... D~"\J.o...r'" Post <br /> <br />Ie. <br /> <br />(?,_. /)1 <br />~if , -::;-.( /";;::> <br /> <br />j <br />,~;~ <br />nO ~)_::r"';j}~:,; <br />u.s. Bureau of Land Management Photo <br />CROSS MOUNTAIN CANYON <br />Project would Involve two dams, generate hydroelectric power <br /> <br />Destroying the work of centuries <br /> <br />To The Denver Post: the canyon floor portrays over a billion <br />IT HAS BEEN said (Lee Olson's edito- years of geologic history. It is an import- <br />rial page column of Aug. 17) that the his- ant and scenic canyon which forms the <br />tory of Western water projects is mea- heart of a l7,480-acre Bureau of Land <br />sured in decades, not in years, It should Management wilderness study area. <br />also be remembered that the history of The BLM, which should be fighting for <br />Western rivers is measured in centuries, the protection of this land until a decision <br />not in decades. A water project that takes as to its suitability for inclusion in the Na. <br />decades to carry out rums a river which tional Wilderness Preservation System can <br />has been flowing free ana forming the be made, has instead decided to speed a <br />land and the animals, plants and people wilderness study through to hasten a deci- <br />, which have lived on it for centuries. Such sion On the project. <br />a project is the proposed Juniper-Cross I feel that the .importance of this study <br />Mountain dam project. and the need to identify and evaluate all <br />The proposed dams will alter a river of the issues and alternatives make the <br />ecosystem which has been perfecting itself speeding of the process impossible with- <br />for the last thousand years. The flows out a deterioration of the quality of the. <br />. from the dam have been projected to study. <br />: reach up to 86 percent higher than historic In 1977 the National Park Service, with <br />. monthly flows and as low as 47 percent the support of conservation groups, pro- <br />lower. This alteration will disrupt the deli- posed that 47 miles of the Yampa River be <br />cate environmental balance struck be- designated "wild and scenic," Today there <br />tween the river and the plants and fish are others prop'osing it be dammed and <br />that have evolved with it. destroyed. It wtll take the loud voices of a <br />The Colorado squawfish and the hump concerned public to be heard over the <br />-oacked chub are both endangered species whining turbines of the developers' imagi- <br />of fish which use the Yampa River as hab- nation. <br />itat. The alterations in the river's flow will I hope The Denver Post will realize the <br />spell their doom. Behind the dam the de- importance of this issue to not only the <br />struction will be just as great. The Cross people of Colorado but to all who love a <br />Mountain dam will flood a deep, 3-mile river and will give it the fair treatment it <br />canyon known as the Cross Mountain deserves. Only an informed public, aware <br />Canyon. The steep walls of the canyon are of both sides of the issue, will be able to <br />i now the nesting site of eagles and the make the choice and decision that will <br />: homes of many other wildlife species. best serve our needs. <br />The walls themselves are a natural les- JEFF RENNICKE <br />son in geologic history. Exposed rock at Denver <br /> <br /> <br />- <br />
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