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1720 FRYINGPAN-ARKANSAS PROJECT, COLORADO 13 49. The seven power plants would have a total installed capacity of 104,800 kilowatts and an annual average output of 505 million kilowatt-hours of which 400 million kilowatt-hours would be firm energy. Losses ,,,'"ould reduce the salublc ene.rgy to approxirnately 467.2 million kilowatt-hours of which 370 million kilowatt-hours would be firm. Associated major pO\ller facilit.ies include seven switch- yards with a combined capacity of 116,440 kilovolt-amperes find a. transmission system consisting of about 400 miles of 11S-kilovolt lines wit.h nine substations. The transmission system would serve customers of the United States Rnd would interconnect with other utilities and enable tbe interchange and wheeling of power from vnrious sources. Thc Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp. intermittently produces waste-heat electric energy as a result of steel mill opcrations. If agreement.s could be reached, sHch energy nlight be fed into tLe project system on nn exchange basis or under some ot~er arrangement whereby more efficient project power opcration would result. Additional generation in the Elbcrt power plant might accrue from the ",<change of Twin Lakes water involved in the mnintenanee of fish Bows in the Roaring Fork River. 50. The Pueblo Reservoir would inundate some 500 acres of irri- gated land. All other lands in the Eastern Slope reservoir sites and for the canals are either low-value private land or public land. The eastern slope reservoirs would require the relocations of about 20 miles of State highway and 20 miles of railroad, but no unusually difficult construction problems have become apparent. The high altitude and short working season pose some problems for the Sugar Loaf and Twin Lakes enlargements and associated facilities. The dam and reservoir sites are situated over glacial moraines which may result in some seepage; however, tightness beyond stability is not necessary. 51. /llunieipal water system,-The projcct eould provide supple- mental municipal water for Colorado Spriilgs and Pucblo. Complete replacement, of existing municipal supplies hus been requested by the valley towns of r>.lanzanolu, Rocky Ford, La. .Junta, Las Animas, Lamar, Crowley, 'Viley. nnd Ends. Tent.nti\'cly, 15,000 acre-feet of project. water have been resen'cd nIlIHlally for municipal use. 8pc- eifie municipal supply facilities out,lined hereinafter in paragraphs 52 and 56 fire included in t.he project plnn as n requested sC'rdcc. SlIch const.ruction is propoo;;cd only if construct.ioIl by the communities themselves proves to be infeasible. This phuse of t,he project is flexible and suscept.ible of modification or eliminat.ion, in whole or in part, without rendering the remainder of the IJrojeet economically infeasible. 52. A supplemental municipal supply for Colorado Springs would invOArC 'an exchange of irrigation water by means of projcet facilities. A ptllnping plant on upper l\-!iddle Bea\-er Creek would lift water to the city's system on Pike's Peak. En rout.e to the cit.y, the water would generate energy in t.wo lI,lUnieipnl power plant.s, the output of which would exceed &e" loss m the Skaguay hrdroelect.ric power plant" on Mtddle Bea"\!l;c Creek, owned by the Southern Colorado Power Co, Colorado Springs eould reimburse the company for the lost p(l\ver value. Replacenient of the diverted wuter for irrigation use near Penrose would be accomplished by diverting \\'uter from Oil Creek to tne existing Brush Hollow Reservoir. A diversion dam and 96229--lI2-a