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<br />l~i::;. <br />)."-,,,. <br />W"'" <br /> <br />DOMESTIC WATER. The increased supply of irrigation water made <br />available by the project would make more water available from local <br />streams for municipal and domestic purposes in the Cedaredge, Orchard <br />City, Cedar Mesa, and Redland Mesa areas. Some of the new water <br />supply provided by the project could also be converted to domestic use <br />as the need for domestic water develops in the future. <br /> <br /> <br />Packing apples for shipment during harvest <br /> <br />COSTS TO THE WATER USERS. Construction of the Grand Mesa <br />Proiect would cost approximately $33 million ($33,000,000), according <br />to preliminary estimates of the reconnaissance report. Costs of opera- <br />tion and routine maintenance would total an estimated $62,000 annually. <br />The water users could afford to pay the operation and maintenance cosh <br />and an addition $136,000 each year toward repayment of the construc- <br />tiQ,n charges. or a total of $198,000 annually. The payments toward re- <br />payment of the construction costs would total $6,800,000 during the <br />required 50-year repayment period. The remaining $26,500,000 would <br />come from the sale of power generated at Curecanti, Glen Canyon, and <br />Flaming Gorge Dams of the Colorado River Storage Project. <br /> <br />Of the $198.000 that would be collected annually by the c~nservancy <br />district, about $5,500 would come from district advalorem taxes of real <br />