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<br />1 - SUMMARY <br /> <br />1.01 To provide water to meet the Denver metropolitan area's future <br /> <br /> <br />needs, the Denver Board of Water Commissioners (DWB) has requested <br /> <br /> <br />approval from the Federal Government to construct a 1,100,000 acre- <br /> <br /> <br />foot Two Forks Reservoir on the South Platte River and to extend the <br /> <br />Williams Fork Gravity Collection System. As a part of the effort to <br /> <br /> <br />decide if approval should be given, the Federal Government, with the <br /> <br /> <br />Corps of Engineers (Corps) as lead agency, has prepared an <br /> <br />Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). <br /> <br />1.02 The Metropolitan Denver Water Supply EIS includes evaluations of <br /> <br /> <br />the short-term and 10ng-term options for providing water to the Denver <br /> <br /> <br />metropolitan area. The demand study area is defined in figure 1-1. <br /> <br />The EIS includes the analyses of the following items: <br /> <br />. Existing water supply; <br /> <br /> <br />. Future water needs; <br /> <br />Conservation; <br /> <br />Alternative long-range plans (scenarios); <br /> <br /> <br />Impacts of the two projects that the DWB proposes to construct; <br /> <br /> <br />. Impacts of the alternatives to these two projects, including <br /> <br />the impact of No Federal approvals; and <br /> <br /> <br />Ways to mitigate the impacts of each of the proposed projects <br /> <br />and their alternatives. <br /> <br />1.03 Public involvement in the preparation of this EIS has been <br /> <br /> <br />extensive. Scoping meetings were held in various 10cations in 1982 <br /> <br /> <br />and again in 1984. Preliminary drafts of most documents were <br /> <br /> <br />subjected to detailed review and discussion by representatives of the <br /> <br /> <br />Governor's Metropolitan Water Roundtable. Technical appendixes on <br /> <br />1-1 <br />