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<br />Mr. Moses: It is diffused too. That's another problem. It doesn't <br />all come out in one flow. I don't want to disturb our friends in <br />Garfield County, but it is something like not the bathhouse springs, <br />but the other springs over by Glenwood Springs. They are contribu- <br />tors and everybody recognizes that, but they are diffused and as far <br />as I have ever heard, it is not economically feasible to treat them. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: Any further questions on this? <br /> <br />Mr. Ford: Yes. Who, Larry, is paying the costs for lining the major <br />canals in the Grand Valley? Is that the Bureau of Reclamation? The <br />water users? <br /> <br />!4r. Sparks: This project would authorize the Bureau of Reclamation <br />to do that. Seventy-five percent federal cost and twenty-five percent <br />state cost. However, for state cost we can utilize the Upper Basin <br />fund under the bill. Some canal linings have been done by water <br />users under the cooperative program with the Soil Conservation Service. <br /> <br />Mr. Ford: Well, those are small laterals, though aren't they? <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: Yes. <br />their own expense. <br />lining. <br /> <br />The various companies have done some lining at <br />The EPA made a grant which went into some canal <br /> <br />Mr. Ford: I was mainly referring to the main canals. We are trying <br />to get a study done now on the Uncompahgre project. <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: Very little of the main canals has been done. What has <br />been done recently was done through an EPA grant. This bill would <br />authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to do it. There would be no cost <br />to the water users. <br /> <br />They had another problem with LaVerkin Springs. There is a rare type <br />of fish that lives in there, a red-nosed dace or something like that. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: I wonder if we couldn't continue this discussion. <br />Doesn't item 5 on the agenda fit in to some extent? <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />!4r. Sparks: Yes. <br /> <br />~tr. Stapleton: If there are no objections, I am sure our audience <br />understands fully the salinity problem now, and I am not going to <br />ask for any questions. Otherwise, we would never get through the <br />agenda. Obviously, this is one of the continuing discussions that <br />transcend probably the membership of any of us on this water board, <br /> <br />-14- <br />