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<br />.. <br />:'.;J <br /> <br />Fortunately, state and federal officials can quickly reverse the Gunnison refilJ error to <br />allow early resolution of the Kansas Suit Reversal of this decree can also help mitigate the <br />damage caused by long-tenn neglect of Colorado's strategic water needs, <br /> <br />Colorado and federal hydrologists know that gravity deliveries from drought-cycle storage <br />on the Gunnison side of the Continental Divide would be worth $ billions for the environments <br />and economies of both slopes. River-flow modeling by the US, Army Corps of Engineers has <br />confinned that a guaranteed acre foot of surplus Upper Gunnison snowmelt can multiply the safe <br />annual yield of Metro Denver's existing reservoirs by about 2 acre feet, Guaranteed <br />transmountain water currently seUs for about $10,000 per acre foot, <br /> <br />Hydrologists also know that urban water and power revenues could quickly cover the <br />estimated $464 million cost to permit and construct an Upper Gunnison reservoir with gravity <br />conduits to both slopes, Colorado's current and future generations should not be denied a iaciiity <br />that can use Colorado's surplus water for low-cost drought protection of the state's four major <br />. , <br />nver enVlTonments, <br /> <br />Colorado's taxpayers and farmers should also not be denied a painless way to use urban <br />return flows to automatically resolve the Kansas suit. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />Dave MiUer, Palmer Lake, CO <br />(719) 481-2003, fax 3452 <br /> <br />Ct>/lenMr- ~ "'1e r- : C~7rA"7 T.; I'rcJ4r- Jel,'ef ~<W~"VATt.OA.J <br />t:>f Co~"A(i,'.s WA.r7ej wet ye,tfr rC/NOt:r /',.; 'f/;uier-~t/ed <br />j,~4J147er s;?;:s is.4 A/e-J (!.~ce/l7 f;,. /.,.,..,- CO&/ <br />e../vir4..JMe.J7;. ( fr-bTec."7t'<:>AJ ~;: io1t .s~/e~ dor/*'7-r.(e. <br />~~~f'~f j"OCJ7,r Cy c.!es. 0'Ie,.; /"'~/er~ (I.vd~r.s~ <br />"!tis t'AlA.JOl'A7JIle. cDwce;aT; c..o.s/N'f 7rA-'h'17 Co-./c!.u?:s) <br />.slll'~;1 €AlCtJ(.)"Acj.e. we.sr- ~r Sl'r'e. c~(J~",7?<M)' <br />(J,,) tc.JA.7er ~ A.s e..J e If A-..s o7'fer-.r 7r4 ~, 'e ~r/. s <br />suc(, A..s 1-04JS/ scto-ols) AIr .service / rc7C. <br /> <br />.x- we.u tJ 6e- J.~N&reJ ~ i"/e f ;~ de.-rA,/( -4/ y,,~r <br /> <br />eArliesT C-t:J-.J Ve.cJ" e...Jce-. . <br />