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MR. SLOAN: "I'll withdraw the motion and let you make it. <br />What I was trying to say was that we would get <br />away from Bijou Creek in this study of the South <br />Platte reservoirs sites." <br />MR. OSBORNE: "Nay I interject one thought in here. I'm of <br />the opinion this way, that if we can arrive at a <br />location of storage places so we can make the <br />maximum use of it, then I've got in the back of <br />my mind that some of this excess flood flows and <br />that stuff be due to the extreme fluctuations of <br />a river. As water becomes more and more valuable <br />we're going to consider ground water recharge and <br />that sort of thing as part of this water. I think <br />we've got more water than we realize if we can get <br />it in the right places so we can call on it at the <br />right times than any of us think we might have. <br />In that respect, anything that would rise on Bijou <br />Creek and could be pumped out and utilized at a <br />later date for irrigation, is that much more to <br />the economy of the State of Colorado, or some other <br />creek by the same treatment is that much more. I <br />wouldn't like to see Bijou Creek forgotten entirely. <br />However, for the purposes of coming up with an <br />economical analysis of the main stem, perhaps it <br />doesn't have too big a force in that respect. But <br />I still look at that 3,000 acre -feet yearly as an <br />annual runoff and I visualize that as irrigating <br />3,000 acres of crop perpetually which we couldn't <br />otherwise have. <br />In addition to that, this recent Supreme <br />Court decision looks like it might make a little <br />more western slope water available and it may have <br />a bearing to go to that country and increase that <br />sort of a thing whereas if it's forgotten entirely <br />you wouldn't have the possibilities there." <br />MR. KNIGHTS: "I think there's one other point here that's <br />got to be considered in the elimination of Bijou <br />or the retention of the study on Bijou and that is <br />this specific. Perhaps the present report is com- <br />parable between the Weld County and the Narrows <br />sites and future studies should also be comparable. <br />If we drop the Bijou out in considering the Hoyt <br />or Wiggins methods of control of it with the Hoyt <br />and Wiggins damsites, should we also then drop out <br />-47- <br />