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<br />.~- . <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />001110 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />, . <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />I. <br /> <br />WEST SLOPE WATER ADJUDICATIONS <br /> <br />I <br />, <br />I <br />Northern dolorado <br />.l <br /> <br />A. Denver and Colorado Sorings ~. <br />Water.ConservancyDistrict <br /> <br />, <br />Well built tunnels, ditches and reservoirs lo~e th~ir <br />I <br />effectiveness when water is scarce and needed, if d~y because <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />Of prime importance to district water users isl the relative <br />priority out of the Colorado River supplies to be a~arded by the <br />I <br />Court. Our chief opponents, Denver and Colorado Spr,ings, are <br />I <br />Den1er seeks all <br />the water of the Blue River at Dillon for a 788 secopd foot tun- <br />nel and for a 685,484 acre foot reservoir which it wbuld build <br />I <br />I <br />there to feed the tunnel. The proceedings pending iF Colorado <br />Supreme Court and in the United States District courlt will decide <br />whether Denver is to be put superior to our Districtl,s use. It <br /> <br />their priority is inferior. <br /> <br />trying to get priorities ahead of our project. <br /> <br />becomes of greater importance than before, since the last decade <br />of water 'flows shows "that there are substantially less acre feet <br />available at Granby Dam than the 320,000 acre feet a~erage which <br />I <br />was estimated for our project in 1937. I <br />Denver's claimed undertaking is a proposed twe~ty-three mile <br />tunnel. This it began to bore in 1946. Its work ha~ been with <br />I <br />a one-shift crew so that, in 1952, 26 years after it's claimed 1921 <br />, <br />date, it had not yet built one full mile. The date rune 26, 1946 <br />was awarded Denver's appropriation, conditionally. ~his is by the <br />, <br />, <br />Summit County District Court decree. Denver has appealed and asks <br />it be awarded a priority back to 1921. It is now un6er considera- <br />, <br />, <br />tion by the Colorado Supreme Court. Denver asks to have it dated <br />I <br />back to 1921. Denver claims that it was, from 1921,1 building <br />, <br />other diversion works to-wit: the Moffat and Jones pass tunnels. <br />These are in eastern Grand County on the Fraser and Williams <br />Rivers. <br /> <br />the Blue River to Platte proposed tunnel. <br /> <br />, <br />, <br />By way of highway, these works are 100 miles remote from <br />, <br />, <br />Denver, twenty-five years <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />, <br />, <br /> <br />-2- <br /> <br />j <br />