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007 :1 as the price for using the riverside system plus a substantial portion of the 28,000 ~cre feet of cooling capacity water which will be available a great deal or the time since a Substantial part is safety factor in view of the fact that the Pawnee generating unit requires a volume of safety storage which, when not actually usee, inures free to the farmers. All this benefit is without expense to federal taxpayers, among whom are the members of RLG. The area of real need for supplemental water out of the Platte River is below Iliff which is forty-five miles below the Narrows Reservoir site. It is another forty-five miles to the state line from Iliff. It is practically impossible to send water from where the Narrows Dam is located to this area because seepage into the areas adjacent to the Platte River would absorb releases from Narrows Reservoir and would have to be inordinately large to get water to the upper end of the area of need and would con- tinue to be absorbed by the ground near the River all the way to the state line. This is an oversimplification. At tached as Exh i bi t n A" is cor respondence between a land- owner and the State Engineer of Colorado which details the matter more accurately. The Exhibit is a genuine, practical illustration of how the Platte River actually operates, furnished by the man in charge of distributing water under the law, when compared with the theories of those persons in the Department of Interior who created a theoretical pattern of operation for the Narrows Reservoir. The exhibit also illustrates the limitations of benefit of transmountain diversions in the lower river. Before any money is appropriated to commence physical construction of the Narrows Reservoir, RLG believes that the Congress, through the Committee of which you are a member, should have an opportunity to examine and cross- examine live, knowledgable witnesses so as to really de- termine, as of the 1980's, whether the Narrows Reservoir will actually produce any substantial amount of usable water. An obvious fact demonstrating the insufficiency of the Project, without calling any witnesses, is that not one landowner has signed a repayment contract whereby he will take and pay for water out of the Narrows project in spite of several years of effort to secure such repayment contracts. There are no doubt local people who would be glad to have Narrows built, but no one has come forward and said he would use his own money to help pay for it. -7- J:4!!'1-=-