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<br />27 <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />the commissioners that if the terms of thelCompact diotated <br />that the reservoir had to be drained, it hAd to be drained. <br />He said, "In that case I have gO' to go to the <br />public. " His idea is he simply goes to thEj public through thE <br />I <br />sportsmen associations and papers, and he ~ets them all behinc <br />him and they come out and there is now a t~mporary injunction <br />I <br />I <br />against the draining of a lot of dams--I b~g your pardon, the! <br />I <br />isn't at the present time. A hearing was leld just last week <br />and under considerable pressure from those who sought to brine <br />the injunction, the chief engineer or the cistrict committed <br />the district on the stand--andI don't knoJI whether he has <br />the legal authority to do so or not--but he made the statement <br />I . <br />I <br />the district would not drain Alamogorda Res:ervoir below 5,000 <br />acre-feet unless they were forced to do so ~y.the Federal <br />, <br />Government or the Re!.o Grande Compact Commis1sion. <br />It isn't his water and the water boes not belong to <br />the district as such. I seriously doubt if he has the right <br />to make that statement. But at least that fS in the record <br />and if he tries to release the water now below 5,000 acre-reet <br />for any reason of his own, he will be in cortempt of court. <br />MR. WILL: May I ask this: Was it on the basis of <br />that statement this temporary injunction wa~ dissolved? <br />MR. BLISS: Yes. I <br />I <br />MR~ ERICKSON: The Judge dismissed the injunction <br />i <br />on that statement: I <br />I <br /> <br />-. <br /> <br />MR. KRAMER: Tha twould solve the problem. <br />- <br />MR; BLISS: I doubt the chief engineer has the right <br /> I <br /> . I <br />. <br />