Show COLOR RIVER STORED r county in this colorado river w water ater squabble doulder c or r black canyon dam Is only part of the program rpm and while the storage of water at the big dam la is the ithe major matter there are several other sides to this subject denver and pueblo want to store in reservoirs supplies of water on the 1 we most st sido of the range then tap these by tunnels and drop them into tha other drainage one loading leading to the at lan tic instead of to tile tho ocean the moffat mo afat tunnel already by tile the rain drain tunnel takes a nice supply away from white river liver through the range and some may be diverted in wyoming the same tiling thing started in utah when tho the strawberry river dam was made a generation ago it a bore drilled through the wasatch and tile the water taken to utah lake nut but equally as large huge a helping of this colorado river water is well planned whereby the grand daddy takes lakes in the uintah range are to be a tunnel or perhaps apa pumps or both will divert this water to provo river and into the mammoth storage project la in provo canyon which they hey call deer lake reservoir california saw this diversion long ions ago age knew it was to bo be and the santa ye fe compact was made as a result of which california Is 3 allowed one halt ithe the runoff run off and the four states above excluding arizona that furnish about all it of the water get the other halt half iri but down hero here in san juan our rivers are too deeply cut too far away for the water to be taken to metropolitan areas and into other watersheds ate I 1 it will run in fit those places which the streams have cut large will be built however which will materially change conditions |