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South Platt River and its tributary basins. Howard: If we go into this project and didn't use all of our water, we also would receive some return flow benefit? Dreher: As far as the Windy Gap water, yes. You could take the return flows from Windy Gap and exchange those for other water supplies or reuse those yourself, but not the CBT water. Dreher explained that the pipeline came to be, because of the regional water supply study that the District performed along with the City of Broomfield's negotiations with the Department of Energy. The grant that Broomfield has with the DOE states that none of the DOE's monies can be used to benefit anybody else but Broomfield. It's Federal law at this point. They are calculating the pro-rata share of cost for participation regardless of who the entity is. They undertook the necessary studies to further refine cost estimates. The costs are most sensitive to the level of participation, not necessarily the engineering parameters. The proposed end of the pipeline at Broomfield is near the theoretical extension of 152nd Avenue and Lowell. This is the site where they propose to build a new water treatment plant to replace the water treatment plant at Great Western Reservoir. They looked at five different alternative routes. They did a preliminary screening looking at length, projected costs, impacts to residential areas, impacts to environmentally sensitive areas, and institutional acceptability. The result of that screening process is they selected what they termed the preliminary preferred route. It progresses south from Carter Lake until it joins a right-of-way that's occupied by THE WAPA power line. The proposal is that it be placed adjacent to that right-of-way in an additional right-of-way that would be secured. It would turn east, generally along Vermillion Road, then turn to the southeast either along a drainage area known as Spring Gulch or along an existing agricultural ditch know as the Rough and Ready Ditch. Then, continue south approximately 1/2 mile to the west of the Boulder Weld County Line. When you compute the cost of the main pipeline and, then, add the connecting lines that could serve other entities; Louisville, Lafayette, Superior, or further to the east there are interests in participation from Ft. Lupton, Hudson, Plattville, the Public Service Company at Ft. St. Vrain, further to the east in Morgan County - Ft. Morgan, the Morgan County Quality Water District, Wiggins, the Pawnee Water Plant which is owned and operated by the Public Service Company. All of these would require connecting lines to receive service, along with Longmont and the Left Hand Water District, which would be a potential participant. When you take the cost of the main pipeline and add the cost of the