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<br />loJI:'>Jcny TOM MeA VOV SI;lIe Capilolnews conference. . Execulives, said .Amendmel1~:"16
<br />Chir(ini" 1Jf'IlW.' "mnlll uEven if Gary IJoycc loses, he promoters mislead '~'voters'..~. by
<br />DENVER - Gary noyce's two wills" by forcing the farmers and ,dcliming the S40-acre-fool cha'rge
<br />Nov. J slate hallot issues :lIC ranchers to reach out to voters would bcncfillhc public schools::-}
<br />meant to sap Silll LlIl!; Valley across the stille to UPllOSC lhe ini- The SJO share troe ;thc.'sta(e
<br />farmers of the money they ncc<.llo tiillivC5, he said~ school trust _merely:. would now
<br />fight his walcr.cxpOll plan, oppo- Ford's, group listctl 40 organi7.a- into lhe fund and only, the interest'
<br />ncnls of the meaSlIres charged (ions, five newspapers' -editorial - perhaps S359,OOO ot'.54 cent~_a
<br />\Vcdncsday. positions anti more than a dozen year per Colorado :student ~.~.
<br />Boyce, a Crcstone Hwchcr, ;\l1(.I state political leaders or'poscd Lo available for funding schools."-h!;
<br />leds J);lIIidson, furmer sl<lte engi- the water issues. . said.; '. . . .., ., :,d' ~~:
<br />ncer, ;up partners in Slockman's Ruger Bill Mitchell, a Monte Sriydc,r 'suid' it's true that..SIQ
<br />'Vater Co., sponsors or (he halll}t Vist.iI farmer and presidenl of the per acre foot~. one-::(ou~Ukofil!le
<br />initiativcs on wcll.pu1l1ping in tlC Colorado Farm llmenu. said money, would go to San Luis'Val-:-
<br />Sail Luis Valley. lloyce's investors. a San Francis- ley school districts; but al a"lr.c-
<br />Their AmclHhncnt 15 would rc. co, Calir.-bascd venture: capital mendous cost to their fu\ure. il:~t~;
<br />quire w"tcr-now IIlctcrs. installed group called faralloJl Group, arc UNo VaHey school would trade
<br />for bchvccn S7UO ami $1.200 interested only in reaping poten- the. revenue from this measure. for
<br />alliecC" --ffiHt--fffifintaincd ami in.-- -t-ial--bi-I-lions-.--of, doUars__oL_p_mJi.ts___Jh~_,___~g~~gi_0:\!~_~conoll1ic :harm'.#.
<br />fopcclco lHon.hfy at_the owners' oul of ~.lpor(ing walcr out of t~\e /~ould dOl" Snydcr'~ald:'!::tf.J'j"t4;;"~-;';' .
<br />C~pC'llSC. 011 an estlJualcd 3.500 San LUIS Valley. l.: : ~.~everly Ausfahl,'a:PuebioF.(ea;-
<br />wells t;lpping the Vallcy's deep, "The proposed c'"porlalion of 'cher who is prcsiden~._of.,tJte.Golo-
<br />IInnmlillctl aquifer. thc Valley's wOller could literally rado Education' Association.;i.said .
<br />Amcntlll1cl1( 16 would charge jcopardize every i.1Spect of the:: her organization's,(,32~0QQ.I:m~m:"'
<br />the Rio Grande Wiltcr Co"scrva~ agri.cullur.,I~hased economy in one. bers oppose the amendments:[t~;~ ~>
<br />tinn District $40 pcr acre.foot of of the 1I10st depressed ar~as of the, School distrlcts cannol'receive
<br />wOller pumped out or the Closed slale," Mitchell s.lid. " I '.- more than theif:Taxpay~r'$~Dil1 of
<br />B<lsiu P.ojccl beneath state school "Grecd and potential invcst-'; Rights' Iimit,L.1she,':__noted,,'~Aso
<br />lamh. ment profits have reared_ lhcir':~'Altlcndmcnt. I.S,,~~prob~",Jy'iln.ep.ns'
<br />The district would have to pay ugly heads at the expense of the: no real new money' fQr;:equca~q'n,
<br />$5.6 million for past withdrawals San Luis Valley's rcsidcnls,~'. he"; only a shift of:lhe:,I~x;J><\rdeli' 10
<br />hack ll~ /987 and SI.2 million :1Il- sai~. ".j ',;: reside~ls of Ihe S~.nJ'Ii.s X~~~y:\'
<br />nually JIl the future. .. I' red Anderson of the Colorado, :,' ....Envlr~:mmen~~I-i.(kgrP..\JP~: ;l~:a,e
<br />^ spokeSn~aT\ for Boyce s Side 'Vater C:ongress. called.. J\J1lcnd;. . !'.flm?og the.:;AO;;~{or!;~.'!!.~,wnlS
<br />could not be reached for comment mentiS' a rCit) nnstake. . ':agalOst the amendm!:nls,\:i-'t;-;:l:.' '.'
<br />on the oppositiOn .ig::linst Amcnd~ The slrlte engincer would have,.. ult is abul1:d3;n~fj,clc!lf Uj~(the
<br />mcnts IS and I~_ to hire 300 additional cmployees real purpose oflhc initia~ives'~s.t~
<br />Chuck Ford, coordinator of the to ccrtify 3,500 meters within.lhe '.sap the economic POWC( ,of" agri-
<br />Cili7,eT~s for ;Colorado.'s. .\~ater five-month deadline set ?y ~;culturaJ p<:opl~ in, thr/~~P'~.,.Invis
<br />ca~np<lIgnllngalJ)~l the ."l1l1aLIVCS, Amendl11cnl I~. Andcrs<;m sald,.:- Valley,;' ~i\Id;~f~~~PI!A"l2h~lQ,pf '
<br />s3Id Ihe ballot fight wlll.cost $1 ami mcters can l he kcpt In work~ . the Sierra Club.:,.r ':n;:,-,~.t . t\~VI
<br />million. much of it drained from iog order more than a couple of Jill Olsen of Ducks: Urihmiled
<br />llie San Luis Valley. months before they me shut down said noyce's plan'to pump -150,-
<br />"'Vc'vc Imd to suck SI million and have to be replaced. 000 acre-feet a year out of the
<br />out or the valley to defend our- Monte Vista School Supcrintcn- Vallcy could dry up weLlands aud
<br />selves agrlinst a pair of unpdn* uent Tim Snyder, rcpresenting the "spell dis.aster for SOJ1l~';qr CQlora-
<br />cip1cd initi:ltivcs:' Ford told a . Colmmlo Association of School do's best wildlife habitat"~.,:;~. .!:.
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