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<br />t,Q <br />~ <br />C< <br />N <br />c:. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />-1--- <br />I <br />I <br />If <br />:! <br /> <br />67 <br /> <br />and operated or it's operated and maintained by the Army <br /> <br />, <br />i: <br /> <br />Corps of Engineers twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />" <br />" <br />ii <br /> <br />days a week. That's the only flood control structure on the <br /> <br />i ,I entire Gila. <br /> <br />HR. MELLON: There was another one, wasn't <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />there? Gillespie? <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Ii <br /> <br />PRESIDING OFFICER: Gillespie was never a <br /> <br />flood control structure. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />MR. MELLON: Why did the farmers load the <br /> <br />gates on that? <br /> <br />PRESIDING OFFICER: Why did they -- we're <br /> <br />getting into some things <br /> <br />MR. MELLON: This all ties back in to what <br /> <br />is about to happen to us right here. <br /> <br />PRESIDING OFFICER: No, sir. <br /> <br />:+. <br /> <br />MR. MELLON: It does not? <br /> <br />PRESIDING OFFICER: No, sir, it does not. It <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />has no bearing on it right now. But, to answer your question <br /> <br />1'1 !i <br />i <br />I <br />'., I <br /> <br />that dam, the Gillespie Dam, as I understood it, belonged <br /> <br />or was instructed with funds from an insurance company and <br /> <br />it was turned over to an irrigation district, I believe, <br /> <br />!i wasn't it, Clyde, up there in that area? And it silted over <br />,i <br />:>) ;1 <br />:1 over the years. It was never a flood dam. It was a <br /> <br />" <br />:. diversion dam for irrigation pure and simple and now it's <br /> <br />'-' <br /> <br />just one tiny little waterfall on the Gila because it's no <br /> <br />A., lit [J U~ PI IOf ~Jt\_______ <br />