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Pine River Times News Paper - Bayfield Colorado <br />0 <br />N IIINF IHN"Flf 114 <br />IMES <br />Wednesday, September 03, <br />2008 <br />SUBSCRIBE <br />■ <br />Home Page <br />Classified <br />Community <br />Events <br />News <br />Opinions <br />Real Estate <br />Sports <br />Worship <br />Subscribe <br />0 Page 1 of 10 <br />Pine River Times Newspaper <br />P.O. Box 830, Bayfield Colorado 81122 <br />Phone: (970) 884 -2331 Email: prt@pinerivertimes.com <br />Advertising I Classified I Real Estate I Community I Worship in the Valley <br />News Stories: <br />� <br />A 11 ! L � Web Hosting Advanccd Digital Media <br />a �IGI ldt -105` From $1.95 mo. W Dcsign and Dayclopmcnt <br />b- 884 -919 <br />Click here for more articles <br />Rural Water District has long <br />history <br />8/8/2008 By: Carole McWilliams <br />The proposed rural water system in <br />the southeast part of the county has a <br />long history. The following relevant <br />items were pulled from Times <br />archives.. <br />1988 - At the annual meeting, Bob <br />Witt was first elected to the PRID <br />board. <br />` 1989 - Phil Lane was elected to the <br />PRID board, replacing his father. <br />1990 - Steve Pargin was elected to the <br />= PRID board with no opposition. <br />1991 - Bob Witt was re- elected by acclamation. <br />1992 -Phil 'Lane was re- elected by acclamation. <br />1993 - Attorney Dirk Nelson reported PRID was filing for rights to fill <br />the reservoir twice each year. It was done in the past, he said, but <br />there was a question of whether the existing decree allowed for that. <br />This issue is still in water court on a more recent filing. Steve Pargin <br />was re- elected by acclamation. <br />1994 - Snowpack was only 61 percent of normal, but the reservoir <br />held 75,000 AF, a lot more than in previous years. There was more <br />worry about water vultures. Bob Witt said, "You can't imagine who <br />has designs on our water... We want to be in a position to get paid <br />for it." BIA representative Jim Formea added, there are "more <br />masked attacks on project water than you can imagine. Agriculture <br />water is the first target, then recreation or municipal and industrial <br />uses." <br />1995 - At the annual meeting, shareholders voted to investigate the <br />potential of providing a rural domestic water system. Irrigators felt <br />that more efficient water management could cover the amount a <br />rural system would use. At follow -up community meetings that year, <br />news stories referred to the system serving Florida Mesa, west to <br />Elmore's, as well as the Pine River Valley, so water use outside the <br />PRID area was part of it from the start. <br />Dirk Nelson commented at one of those meetings that the original <br />decree for Vallecito made water available for domestic use, but that <br />http:/ /www.pinerivertimes.com/news.asp ?artid =550 <br />Bayfield, CO <br />61 °F /16 °C <br />Clear <br />at 11:55 AM , <br />Click for Forecast <br />COLORADO <br />PRESS <br />ASSOCIATION <br />9/3/2008 <br />