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<br />00145" <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br /> <br />Similarly, the oonclusion that power oould be purohnsed oheaper than <br />it oould be generated with tho pumped water is reaffirlWd. All water <br />diverted from the South Platte River under this plan would require <br />replacement. That oould te aocomplished with imported Colorado Riwr <br />water upon oonstruotion of the potential Blue-South Platte Project. <br /> <br />26. This plan, as does the single-purpose plan, assumes that <br />replacement of wator in the Two Forks Reservoir by the Blue-Sout h <br />Platte Project would satisfy all requirements for reimbursement to <br />the city and county of Denver for use of the lr,.tero and Eleven Mile <br />Canyon Reservoirs. If actual negotiations do not substantiate that <br />assumption, the estirrate cost of municipal and irrigation water would <br />n6eos~arily be increased according~. <br /> <br />270 Because of the dual function of moet fadlities.--for supply. <br />ing municipal and irrigation water-~joint costs would be allocated to <br />each function thereby reducing the corresponding costs from those re- <br />quired for single-purpose facilities. Thus, the cost of 7,000 acre- <br />feet of municipal water under the dual-purpose plan would be ab~t <br />~49.54 per acre-foot (15.21 per 10000 go.llons) in oontrast with t83.75 <br />per acr-e-foot for the sare amount of water under the sinGle-purpo,*, <br />plon. Both cost calculations for 7,000 acre-feet of municipal water <br />utilize amortizat ions of allocated construction co bts over 40 years <br />with interest at 2..1/2 percent, annual O.M. & R., and the system cost <br />of $24 per acre-foot for municipal water in the Sodh Platte River. <br /> <br />28. Constructjon costs allocated to irrigation under the dual- <br />pu~pose plan could he reimbursed over 60 years witho'lt interest. <br />Tho estimated total annual (Jost of the pumped irrigation water would <br />be ()23~34 per o.cre~footl that cost is bo.sed upon: <br /> <br />(a) an amortization without interest of the allocated <br />construction co"t of the diversion fea'~'lres, an:! the cest of <br />a r"gulatory racervair an:! distri~ution and di"ainage system, <br /> <br />(b) a.M, & R. on the alloco.ted construotion 00 sts, <br /> <br />(c) pumping power oosts for 38,000 o.ore-feet of irri- <br />gation water, and <br /> <br />(d) the Blue-South Platte Project system cost of $2.92 <br />por aore..foot for ir:cie;o.tion water in the South Platte River. <br />On the basis of 3010 e_cre-f"et of water per acre, as oom- <br />p;;.ted for now lands mileI' the. IW.ximum gravity diversion of <br />the GUnnisOll-Arkonsas Proj "ct, a f",ll water supply for new <br />hnd in the Fountain Valley would cost 072.35 per a.cre <br />a.nnuallyo <br /> <br />29. Th'3 38,000 acre-feet of irrigation vmter V10uldfurni sh 0. fuli <br />supply for approxirrutely 12,000 'lcres of nonirrif,atod land in tbo Foun- <br />tain Valley. Return flows frcm that wa.ter 9_n<1 frorr. M'Jnidnn) ,.-r',to'C' ,-rov'_d <br /> <br />9 <br />