BOARD00021

• Board Meeting Date: 7/12/1965
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. DUGAN:

to get those eliminated. This waiting for
several years, we still owe $238,000 on the
last flood, we've got this one coming up and
I think the thing is very, very urgent that
we do get some planning for some control of
the side streams and channelization and the
removal of phreatophytes because it is going 1-
to put a lot of these ditch companies out of
business. They'll be indebted very heavily.

The thing that we were just very fortunate
about was that it didn't hit all at once. And
it can; I've seen it do it with a top of about
80,000 through Pueblo. Another reason that
the damage wasn't greater, there were drops
right beyond all of them. Had all of these
had a sustained run, there would have been no
place for the water to go. And it can happen.
In 1921 they figure l8l,OOO feet and that is
supposed to be the granddaddy of them all down
in our country and I think it is. But had
these all peaked at the same time, this time,
you would have had many, many times the damage
that you do have now. The frequency of some
of these larger tributaries is quite often.
You would think it would give you valuable
waters that you could store and be released.
It's the constant eroding when the river gets
up pretty big that's getting the ditch compa-
nies. They have to protect at all costs.

I would certainly urge some studies to
be made and everyone in the Valley down there
would like to have immediate studies on the
side streams and some immediate channelization
on the river."

"Thank you, Frank.

Did you have a comment, Pat?"

I

"Yes, I have a comment that might be
appropriate right at this moment. ~'7e have
considered studies on the Arkansas for conser-
vation and multiple-purpose aspects including
control of phreatophytes for water salvage. We