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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Glen Canyon reservoir will yield approximately half of the <br /> <br />live storage for the entire Colorado River St~rage Project and more than <br /> <br />half of the power. Because ~f the heavy silt load carried by the Colorado <br /> <br /> <br />River at that point, Glen Canyon would be of tremend0us value in prolonging <br /> <br />the useful life of Lake Mead. It would also 'greatly increase the power <br /> <br />potentialities at any future dc:wnstream sites, such as Marble and Bridge <br /> <br />Canyon, by regulatin~ the fiver. <br />Ynu might ask--what are sore of the prC'J:;lems confronting the <br /> <br />states themselves? <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />Colorado has a number of p0tential irrigation projects and big <br /> <br />possibilities f0r industrial use of water within the natural basin. Also <br /> <br />two potential transbasin diversion projects eould provide water for the <br /> <br />South Platte and Arkansas Basins on the east sl0pe of the R"cky Mountains. <br /> <br />Under Colorado state policy within-basin uses are to receive first <br /> <br />consideration. However, the river regulation afforded by the Colorado <br /> <br />River Storage Project provides the transbasin projects their only <br /> <br />possibility of being assured of surplus water fer exportation. <br /> <br />Utah's potential ~ses within the natural basin ar8 small in <br /> <br />comparison with the large transbasin diversion for thc potential Central <br /> <br />Utah Project. The State can only approach full utilization of its <br /> <br />allocation of Colorado River water through this transbllsin diversiC'n. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />New Mexic~, in order to utilize its share of Colorado River <br /> <br />" ,~ <br />c . <br />"..) <br /> <br />water, must use the only major storage site on the San Juan River, the <br /> <br />~artinez site, near the Colorado-N~w Mexico State line for long-time <br /> <br />regulation. 'The San Juan River will supply the potential Shiprock Indian <br /> <br />Project, twe small projects and either a p~tential development on the <br /> <br />9 <br />