Kansas is concerned that the Bureau of Reclamation has not included enough safeguards for the Arkansas River Compact in the draft environmental impact statement for the Southern Delivery System. "As far as we can determine the draft EIS conclusion that downstream water users will be affected is based on a modeling assumption, not an analysis by the bureau," Kansas Chief Engineer David Barfield wrote in comments to Reclamation. Reclamation’s analysis of the impact of SDS, a $1.1 billion pipeline project proposed by Colorado Springs, Security, Fountain and Pueblo West, stops at Las Animas, based on the assumption that there would be no impact farther down the Arkansas River.

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