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Article: Panel shelves Lake Pueblo enlargement: Political pressure too much for key element of Preferred Storage Options Plan.
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- The Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colorado)
- Article date:
- June 12, 2007
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Byline: Chris Woodka
Jun. 12--A committee voted Monday to put efforts to study enlargement of Lake Pueblo on hold until next year and to spend the next 60 days reviewing how the decision will affect water storage agreements negotiated over the last four years.
"By putting it on the shelf for some time, it will give us a chance to reflect on what we want to provide for our basin," Alan Hamel, executive director of the Pueblo Board of Water Works, told the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District's Preferred Storage Options Plan committee.
As former president of the Southeastern board, Hamel was virtually the architect of PSOP, a measure ...