BOARD00140

• Board Meeting Date: 5/7/1980
• Description: Agenda and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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The dam breach has got to be repaired in very short order

if that facility is to have any opportunity to fill
during this spring runoff.

Because it is again a dam safety regulation question,

both the staff of the State Engineer's office as well as

my own staff, in consultation with the consulting firm

for Prospect Dam have been looking at that data.

We did finally conclude that it was, for fairly
obvious reasons, a true emergency situation. I supported
its inclusion in the bill when it came before the

committee.

The amount involved, as you can see, is an estimated

cost of $633,000. For the Board's information, I should

advise you that these people obviously have needed to

proceed as rapidly as they could.
I have advised that if they proceed as they have in

fact proceeded -- and David Miller, their attorney, would

be glad to speak to the situation, I'm sure -- but I have

advised if they proceed, they proceed entirely at their
own risk.

I obviously can't speak for the legislature in terms

of whether they ultimately pass the bill. I've also

advised that they proceed at their own risk in the sense

that I am not authorized to execute a contract for that

facility until after the first of the fiscal year, and

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