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<br />~ 21421 HIGHWAY 60 <br />';;...1 PLATTEVILLE. COLORADO 80651 <br /> <br />BIG BEHD STATICH <br />EATON CATTLE COMPANY <br /> <br />~. cpO <br />... (~ 737,2150 <br />, (303) 573,5481 (DENVER DIRECT) <br /> <br />,~ vS Vh <br /> <br />June 29, 2007 <br /> <br />Dear Honorable Governor Bill Ritter and Task Force Members: <br /> <br />Our family has fanned in the South Platte River basin for over a hundred years. We appreciate that you have <br />fonned a team, in respo~se to the well shut-down crisis. However, your characterization of the crisis, <br />describing it as an argument between senior and junior water right holders, is inaccurate. It is not senior and <br />junior water right holders that have created the problem. It is mismanaged water resources. And it is the use <br />of water law, by attorneys supported by development of the front range, to usurp water from farmers, so that <br />agricultural land too will become available for development. <br /> <br />You state that the Task Force has been fonned to seek solutions. Since the senior water right holders are not <br />dissatisfied, we assume that those sought-after solutions are for fanners. We want to know, as taxpayers: <br />Is the Task Force only for "seeking" or if it is actually tasked with "resolution"? <br /> <br />If it is the fonner, why then are you wasting Colorado Taxpayers' time and resources? My family has heard <br />from more than one Task Force member that resolutions are unlikely. Can you promise that you will <br />overcome that? Ifnot, it is hard to see the Task Force as other than political posturing. <br /> <br />Or, as we hope, has the Task Force gathered to alleviate the wmecessary crisis that mismanaged water <br />resources have put, not just on farmers, but on all those who will suffer environmentally, economically and <br />from less safe, less secure food supplies? That would be true leadership and wonderful. Ifthe Task Force's <br />actual goal is produclivity-something that fanners can relate to-we want to know what kind of Task Force <br />outcome would be considered "solutions". And we would like to know this today. <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br /> <br />The Eaton Cattle Company <br />Dorothy Thomas Phelps <br />William Eaton Phelps, Jr <br />Ann Eaton Phelps <br />Tershia d'Elgin <br /> <br />~oJl~(f~ <br />