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!'\ 1'\ ')"., 3 'U.J I' _.J - 15 - preject will be abeut 0.1 mills per kwh. (See Gildersleeve-Tiptan statement attached hereto as Appendix I,) This increased pawer cast may be absorbed by a slight increase in the rate at which the energy will be saId, .or a carresponding minor reductian in the ameunt of the prapased develepment fund available far parti- cipating projects, ,. (i) It will save appraximately seven miles .of the Gunnisan River west .of Gunnisan far stream fishing. It will reduce, in some degree, because of a lower high water level, adverse effects an the present winter habitat .of deer and elk in the area. The extent of such favorable effects .of the reduced Curecanti storage cannot be accurately determined at this time. . (j) It will not materially imprave, because .of the decrease in inundated area, dislacatian .of variaus fishing res arts now lacated ITest .of Gunnisan alang the Gunnisan River, These res arts, with .one .or twa axceptians, are lacated west .of the high water line .of the reduced Curecanti starage (940,000 acre-feet). (k) It will eliminate a recagnized and well understaed abjec- tion, made by the people of Gunnisan Caunty, ta the undesirable fluctuatian .of the high-water levels i~ediately adjacent ta the City of Gunnisen. Althaugh it has been shown by engineering studies that the principal lcwrering of the high-water line wauld in mast years .occur in the late fall and winter months, an unsightly mud- flat canditian at any time .of the year :immediately adjacent ta a caunty seat oity .of 2700 peaple, well known as a res art center, should be avaided if pas sible. y (1) It wauld be financially feasible, both as to the .overall Calorado River Storage plan .of the Bureau .of Reclamatian and as to the separate Gunnison River storage units .of that plan. This is a most impartant cansideration, and in suppart thereaf see the Gilder- sleeve-Tiptan study on this particular subject attached hereta as Appendix I. " 7. That the sectian .of the Gunnison River Basin between the Black Canyan Natianal Manument and Delta daes nat pravide substitute starage sites for any appreciable partian .of the prapased Curecanti Reservair, The Austin (sometimes called Wada) damsite, abaut three-fourths .of a mile abave the mauth .of Smith Fork, is a gaod site, lvith a dam 300 feet high in the inner garge, far the starage .of appraximately 110,000 acre-feet .of water. Such a dam -"auld back water into the Manument for a distance .of abaut two miles, A dam 500 feet high at this site wauld stare 460,000 acre-feet, backing the vrater mare than three miles beyand the west bound- ary of the Man~~ent, but is considered engineeringly and financially in- feasible, Unsatisfactary faundatian canditians an either side .of the inner garge, ever which a higher dam wa~d extend, and disprapartianat~ high constructian casts, as campared vlith ather units in the Calorada