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<br />. <br /> <br />002782 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />We also felt that if all of the water records of the irriga~ <br /> <br />tion division were centrally located in one courthouse, much time <br /> <br />and travel could be saved in attempting to find the necessary <br /> <br />water records. The court could sit anywhere in the division to <br /> <br />hear a case, but all transfer cases, abandonment cases, adjudica- <br /> <br />tions, etc., would be heard by the one judge. <br /> <br />Then we decided to establish division boards to advise each <br /> <br />division engineer, and to help bring the administration of water <br /> <br />back from a central office in Denver to a point nearer the grass <br /> <br />roots, nearer the people affected. <br /> <br />There are compelling reasons for a wide application of local <br /> <br />control in the administration of water rights in Colorado. Colo- <br /> <br />rado has a tremendous variation in problems and in the application <br /> <br />of the same law. A ground water situation in the San Luis Valley <br /> <br />may be a very complex geological situation; an aquifer along the. <br /> <br />Platte may run for miles without being disturbed. Rotation of <br /> <br />water may be practical in some areas and impractical in others. <br /> <br />We felt that many problems that had no good, sound legal solution <br /> <br />might well have a practical solution that a local board could get <br /> <br />unanimous approval on from the water users, so that steps could <br /> <br />be taken voluntarily that had no legal basis. As to the reception <br /> <br />this suggestion has received, I'll comment later. <br /> <br />The division boards were given a considerable amount of <br /> <br />7 <br />