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The Corps and pro-dam forces (public and private) have conspired 
promote one of the most needlessly destructive and useless projects 
the notorious history of the Corps. They have manipulated the news, 
creted public documents, violated the Corps’ own regulations as well 
those of Indiana’s Nature Preserves Act, failed to announce public 
arings to conservationists and withheld information while “leaking” it 
friendly forces. The Corps’ tactics in attempting to justify the Big Wal- 
jt Reservoir give impetus to the movement to take the Corps out of 
e dam business. 
The Corps’ efforts to justify the project are based on the same old 
jartet of supposed benefits—dubious as they may be: 
1. Water supply—Water is to be pumped thirty-five miles uphill to 
dianapolis which does not need it; the Indianapolis Water Company 
now constructing a new 21 billion gallon Mud Creek Reservoir and 
uld expand its Geist Reservoir by twenty-eight billion gallons, thereby 
jadrupling current storage capacity—and it would all be done with 
ivate funds. 
2. Low flow augmentation—Instead of taxing its own citizens to 
G WALNUT—A product of some 12,000 years. 
