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PATENT PENDING <br />SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY DIVERTING WATER AND <br />PROVIDING PEAK HYDROELECTRIC POWER <br />CENTRAL COLORADO PROJECT (CCP) <br />Western Renewable Energy & Water Productivity Multiplier <br />WHITE PAPER <br />by Dave Miller, President <br />Natural Energy Resources Company <br />P.O. Box 567 <br />Palmer Lake, Colorado 80133 <br />(719) 481 - 2003, Fax (719) 481 - 3452 <br />April 19, 2007 <br />EXECUTIVE SUMMARY <br />Our Nation’s growing Western Region has an escalating renewable energy and water <br />shortage crisis. This paper, for the first time, fully reveals how the innovative Central <br />Colorado Project (CCP) can soon solve a significant portion of th is seemingly intractable <br />crisis. CCP’s unique concept employs a single high altitude regulating reservoir to multiply <br />the productivity of renewable energy and water resources and systems throughout the <br />Southwestern Region’s major river basins on both sides of the Continental Divide. CCP’s <br />regional high storage concept for enhanced energy and water productivity has significant <br />worldwide potential for human and environmental needs. <br />HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES <br />Naturalists understand that high - altitude beaver d ams have protected and enhanced <br />Western river valleys and environments for thousands of years. Hydrologists also <br />recognize that headwater reservoirs have multiple use and reuse advantages for entire <br />river systems over comparable down river storage facilit ies. Unfortunately, the latent <br />economic and environmental advantages of headwater reservoirs have never been <br />recognized and applied in Western water development doctrine or practice. <br />Institutional barriers and technical constraints have worked against reg ional water <br />resources planning with high - altitude pumped - storage. As a result, most Western dams <br />are located down - river in low and medium - altitude sites. These traditional dams on rivers, <br />have limited socio - economic benefits, cause serious environmental im pacts, and suffer <br />excessive evaporation losses. They are also largely responsible for our Nation’s thirty - year <br />“green movement” against new water storage projects. Central Colorado Project’s high - <br />1 <br />