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..I".v"%U MR. MlLENSKI: MR. NELSON: MR. SPARKS: MR. MlLENSKI: "They just want to know the overall plan - where the water is coming from and how it's going to be operated." "Mr. Sparks, do you have anything to say as to what the Water Board engineer down there is doing, or can do, or will do?" I "Yes. We have made a number of sur- veys down there. We have looked into potential water sources. Now what Mr. 1~lenski has to say about the source of water, of course, is exactly true. Re- gardless of the source, however I the reser- voir operation would be the same. You are dealing with water, no matter what the source is. The problem is to find that amount of water initially, and sufficient water thereafter to maintain the evapora- tion. To do that, it would involve a court procedure. You have to buy water rights and go into court to get the point of use changed to John Martin Reservoir. I am not able to predict what the courts might do; what stipulations or regulations they would put in any decree or even if they would grant such a decree. But in any event, whatever water rights were purchased, only the con- sumptive use portion of that water could be credited to the permanent pool. In other words, the flow which went back to the stream historically could not be credited to the permanent pool. You run intb a major problem in trying to acquire this water and then trying to de- termine what the courts would do with it. But the point that we are in, is that we cannot acquire this water and go into court until we have authority to put it in there. But no matter what the source of water may be, the operation, as far as the reservoir may be concerned, would be the same. You would simply, when the conservation pool was empty I pass the inflow." "But, Larry, if you acquire the water high up and bring it by all the diversion points of ditches (and I've seen the Arkan- sas go where the Rocky Ford ditch has the priority of 112 feet and they had 7) so it I