Soon all the water from the melting snow will come roaring down the Colorado and Gunnison rivers on its way to California. Not one drop of it will stay here in the valley. Why? Because there is no place to put it.

Back in 1984 when the Bureau of Reclamations extensive plans for a reservoir to be built in Dominguez Canyon on the Gunnison, not the Colorado River, President Carter axed it and it was put on the shelf. Then in 1992 somehow a permit to reconsider this great reservoir was denied by the Department of Interior. Why? Because it might hamper the progress being made to save four endangered fish and we all know which ones they are.

Why after 17 years is that permit denial still on the records? All it would take for its removal so that marvelous addition could be reconsidered is for our congressmen, the Salazars and Allard, to ask for a review of it to see if it is still feasible. All they need is some encouragement by we citizens to request this reevaluation be done. If it was considered a wonderful project for water preservation back in 1984, it undoubtedly is a wonderful project to be put on the docket again in 2008. We need to keep some of that roaring water coming off the mountains instead of letting it flow on to California.

DEDE RANZENBERGER
Palisade

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