BOARD00140

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

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It's not -- and to me this is important. And in view

of the magnitude of this fund presently, I think an ongoin

work of this kind will pay dividends in the long run.

I can give you a good example of some of the work

that the institute under Dr. Evans has done in terms of

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water conservation over in our area.

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Through some funding that we obtained from the

Environmental Protection Agency we were able to do a

very important study on land treatment, which was the

reuse, in this particular case, of effluent from the

Hayden sewer plant and reapplying this to the land.

As a result of that work we're now able to proceed

with a full blown, planned treatment scheme for a major

regional plant over in the Steamboat area.

And I'm just giving you this as an example of the

kinds of things that could come out of it. My suggestion

would be that if we support this funding, that we would

review the type of applied research projects that he would

propose so that we would have some idea that we're getting

our money's worth.

I personally would support it if there's a way to

do it. I do fully understand, however, that our construc-

tion fund is a loan fund, although I think we have agreed

that some of the funds when they go into feasibility

studies aren't repaid, tending to be grants.