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<br />Plan E, set forth on Paee 2 of the Bureau's report, so far as total
<br />storage and active storage is concerned is as follo\'1s:
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<br />Plan E
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<br />Curecanti
<br />;Ihitewater
<br />Crystal
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<br />940,000 A,F.
<br />Ouo,ooo A,F,
<br />510,000 A.,F,
<br />2,330,000 A.F,
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<br />765,000 A,F.
<br />470,000 A,F.
<br />425,000 A.F,
<br />1,660,088 A,F.
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<br />ConcernL~g rlan E the Committee finds:
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<br />(a) It would reduce the total storage in the Gunnison River
<br />Basin, as compared with Plan A, by 1,090,000 acre-feet and the
<br />active storage by 820,000 acre-feet.
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<br />(b) It would provide 1,190,000 acre-feet of active storage,
<br />on which relial,,,e c0111d be made to take care of the 425,000 acre-
<br />feet of storag8 est._mated by the Committee as being the neees"ary
<br />capacity to ta~~ c~re of consumpti7e use of w~tar in the Gunnison
<br />River for dam~sticJ agricultural and inJustr:nl purposes.
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<br />(c) It ,vould reduce the inundation lOf h:lt! in Gunnison COllnty,
<br />a8 compared .ri7-h PI"-,, A, from approxim,T~."ly 12;.000 acres to 9,200
<br />Cl~'''es. Under t;~l,'1 ]'eduction in in'JndA+J~:i ar.~~, the high wcd:~.: line
<br />"',,,ld be at the uppClr end of the Ka.'.'rrnn abOut seven miles w"c.t of
<br />G"nnison instead of at the city limits of Gunnison.
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<br />(d) It \'Tould reduce the 5,049 acres, estimated by the Plr~au
<br />of Reclamation as the area of land clas3ified r.s presently ;;-,.:[-,
<br />Gated "hich "1Ould be inundated in Gunnison Cour.ty by the 2; S' ".I ,roo
<br />acre-foot Curecanti under flan A, to approximately 2,000 ~~T?~o
<br />This "'ould mean that only about 40 per cent of the present:',)'
<br />irriGated land rrhich rrould be inund::Jted by the 2,;;00,000 a,;r,~-foot
<br />Cll.'.'ecanti stor"cc "ould be inundated by the ;/40,00C; ".cn--ft.r,t, c.~
<br />CCirccanti storllee under llan::;, 7h2re T:ould be ~-r::w:.:'_;.::"::,,,:~y the
<br />so-me proportioCls te, perhaps Greater, reduction j:: ~,'-" ac.. ,:,.se
<br />economic effects on the livestock econorr.y in GtL'1:-.i,'.:.n COU.TC.Y, The
<br />Cor.mittee is unable to confinn the correctness of "_~,e Bureau's esti-
<br />mate that approximately 5,049 acres of irrigated Illf.d ,.,ould be
<br />inundated by the Curecanti Reservoir with 2,500,000 acre-feet of
<br />storage. Further surveys may shOl" that this figure is somewhat
<br />greater, but the proportion of reduction in the inundation of
<br />presently irrigated land by the T',Llucp.d storage, it nay 17ell be
<br />assumed, is substantially correct, The Bureau found 1,219 acres
<br />of land in the "ffected area under the larger reservoir which is
<br />under dUc!! h"t. '"hich has not beGi1 irrif3ted, The extent to which
<br />the smallel' r<; ',?rvoir would relie."" tho.s l,219 acres of land from
<br />inundation ca:i:,ot be estimated by the Committee"
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