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<br />49. The seven power plants would have a total installed capacity
<br />o~ 104,800 kilowatts and 1m annual average output of 505 million
<br />kilowatt-hours of which 400 million kilowatt-hours would be firm
<br />energy. Losses would reduce the salable energy to approximatcly
<br />467.2 million kilowatt-hours of which 370 million kilowatt-hours would
<br />be firm. Associated major power facilities include seven switch-
<br />yards wi(,h a combined capacity of 116,440 kilovolt-aDlperes and a.
<br />transmission system consisting of about 400 miles of 115-kilovolt
<br />lines with nine substations, The transmission system would serve
<br />customers of the United States and would interconnect with other
<br />utilities and enable the interchange and wheeling of power from various
<br />sources, The Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp, intermittently produces
<br />waste-heat electric energy as a result of steel mill operations. If
<br />agreements could be reached, such energy might be fed into the project
<br />system on an exchange basis or under some other arrangement whereby
<br />more efficient project power operation would result. Additional
<br />generation in the Elbert power plant might accrue from the exchange
<br />of Twin Lakes water involved in the maintenance of fish flows in the
<br />Roaring Fork River.
<br />50. The Pueblo Reservoir would inundate some 500 acres of irri-
<br />gated land. All other land~ in the Eastern Slope reservoir sites and
<br />for the canals are either low-value private land or public land. The
<br />eastern slope reservoirs would require the relocations of about 20
<br />miles of State highway and 20 miles of railroad, but no unusually
<br />difficult construction problems have become apparent. The high
<br />altit,ude and short working season pose some problems for the Sugar
<br />Loaf and Twin Lakes enlargements and associated facilities. The
<br />dam and reservoir sites are situated over glacial moraines which may
<br />resl)lt in some seepage; however, tightness beyond stability is not
<br />necessary.
<br />51. Municipal water system,-The project could provide supple-
<br />mental municipal water for Colorado Springs and Pueblo. Complete
<br />replacement of existing municipal supplies hilS been requested by the
<br />valley tovrns of Manzanola, Rocky Ford, La Junta, Las Animas,
<br />Lamar, Crowley, Wiley, and Eads, Tentatively, 15,000 acre-feet of
<br />project water have been reserved annually for municipal use, Spe-
<br />cific municipal supply facilities outlined hereinafter in paragraphs 52
<br />and 56 are included in the project plan as a requested service, Such
<br />const.ruction is proposed only if construction by the communities
<br />themselves proves to be infeasible, This phase of the project is
<br />flexible and susceptible of modification or elimination, in whole or in
<br />part, without rendering the remainder of the project economically
<br />infeasible,
<br />52, A supplemental municipal supply for Colorado Springs would
<br />involve an exchange of irrigation water by meaDS of project facilities.
<br />A pumping plant on upper Middle Beaver Creek would lift water to
<br />the city's system on Pike's Peak. En route to the city, the water
<br />would generate energy in two municipal power plants, the output of
<br />which would exceed the loss in the Skaguay hydroelectric power
<br />plant, on Middle Beaver Creek, owned by the Southern Colorado
<br />Power Co. Colorado Springs could reimburse the company for the
<br />lost power v~l~\;l, R,iiplaC:ement, of, the diver~ed v:at.er for irrigatio~
<br />use near Penrose would"be accomphshedby dlvertmg water from Oil
<br />Creek to the existing Brush Hollow Reservoir, A diversioD dam and
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