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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />() 'i 2 8 <br /> <br />7 <br />we then turned QUI' eyes to the problems at home. The major prob- <br />lem!; in 1965 "/ere the water wells commencing with REA power, better' <br />electric motors and better drilling, it for the first time became <br />economical from 1950 on to pump water for the irrigation of c crop, <br />By 1965 there were pumps installed which would pump more than the <br />volume of the Arkansas River in the dry months of the year ond <br />something hod to be done, otherwise it could be seen that if you <br />r-irnp.\y released water from Pueblo Reser"voir the big pumps with their <br />Coco-Cola strows stuck in the river bottom would suck it dry and <br />e~ a result Boustead ,who ,wastd.:h~rl '.our project maneger, set out and <br />our district backed Lerry Sparks the adoption of H. 1066, which was <br />o bill to bring the wells into the priority system, This was bit- <br />terly contested end every pumper resented the passage of this leg- <br />islation, Boustead, in getting the bill through the legislature, <br />spent a good bit of money wining and dining the legislators and <br />this gave an opportunity for what was later known os the "W$rme Case" <br />to challenge whether or not the district had been mismonaged, This <br />case was commenced in 1966 and was concluded by the Supreme Court <br />in approximately 1969 or 1970, in which the Supreme Court refused <br />to toke jurisdiction of the case and the pumpers were told to <br />start ell over ogoin if they wonted to do onything about it. This <br />basically broke their backs and the dir.trict unscathed continued <br />its efforts to bring the wells into the priority system, <br />In 1969. two major things occurred, reclly, on the project. <br />The environmentalists in Pitkin County complained ebout the building <br />of a road up Hunter Creek ond os a result it was decided to drive <br />the Hunter Creek tunnel from one adit. At the some time the BureaU <br />hod gone to the concept of high pump storage and had abandoned <br />