BOARD00100

• Board Meeting Date: 5/11/1960
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. MILENSKI:

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MR. NELSON:

MR. MlLENSKI:

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MR. NELSON:

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"The thing the people in the valley are
interested in is where. the water is coming
from of course, and how the thing will be
operated. I think the source of the water
is important and an operational plan that we
could go down to the valley and show most
of the people such a plan that they under-
stood it, we'd have a lot better case.

As I. understand it, the people below
the dam, who have six ditch companies;
oppose any kind of a fish pool, But where
it is going to come from and how it is going
to be operated is vital information and I
think should come right along with the
plans."

"From whom would you prefer this plan
to come? The Water Board or the Game and
Fish or the Corps of Engineers, or all
three ?"

"Mr. Doe works for the Water Board and
he has spent several years on the Arkansas
and I think he understands it very well -
understands the conditions of it - and I
think Mr. Doe could make a study of it for
the Water Board and We could put it out to
the water users so they knew what the score
was, where it was coming from and what the
operational idea of it was.

You have a good man. If you put a new
man down there that hasn't been on the river
it would take him a long'time to acquaint
himself with the river. For instance the
other day, Twin Lakes made a reservoir run
and they had water in Meredith. The river
was so low they couldn't even exchange.
They had to bring water down f=cm ~vin Lakes
for it.

If you go down through it that way I
think you'll find things that you can do
and things that you can't do, and I think
you would have a pretty good setup."

"Then your people want a month-by-month
plan, or a day-by-day plan" so that they
know exactly what it's going to be. Is that
it?"