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I'm willing to discharge my obligations to <br />this committee within my human ability in the <br />order of their importance which is first to the <br />State of Colorado and secondly, to the South <br />Platte Basin and next to personal interests, or <br />rather to my clients' interests, and then to my <br />personal interests. Now whether this is humanly <br />possible, I don't know. But anyway, as a member <br />of the Board, I'd like to say first of all, I <br />have attempted over a period of years here to <br />approach this with a basin -wide concept for <br />maximum multi - purpose development and I am pleased <br />to know that, not only at this meeting, but at <br />other meetings, that every person attending, by <br />and large, has taken that same position. So while <br />we might represent individual interests, I think <br />we can agree that we want to accomplish the most <br />effective water resource development in the basin. <br />I would say that as a landowner under the <br />Bijou Canal, that I am interested in a project <br />which will deliver to me additional water which <br />that land needs. And if I approach the selection <br />of the Narrows site or Hardin or Weld County, <br />then I approach it with this in mind, that I'm <br />only for that site which can deliver water to my <br />land. If that can be done from the Narrows, fine, <br />and if it can't be done from the Narrows then I, <br />as a landowner and every other landowner under <br />the Bijou, the Riverside, or the Henrylynn, is <br />going to take this same position. I'm willing <br />to sign for this project and pay my share of the <br />cost only if I get water on my land. <br />So I think to start with, this is an engi- <br />neering question in site selection. Will the <br />Weld County site deliver water in July and <br />August, into the canals of the Henrylynn, the <br />Farmers Company, the Bijou Irrigation District, <br />the Riverside Irrigation District, and so on, in <br />this area? It seems to me that this is essen- <br />tially a problem of hydrology and engineering to <br />which the experts here present have addressed <br />themselves in the past and I'm sure will have to <br />keep working at it in the future. <br />I can't resist, at this stage of the game, in <br />-17- <br />