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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Mr. Moses: In effect, yes. <br /> <br />Mr. Vandemoer: And they turn that in to him and then. . <br /> <br />~tr. Moses: There is going to be a number of opposing, or maybe not <br />opposing, but different views, sent to the judge and he is going to <br />pick out the one or a combination that he likes best and that will <br />probably be the basis of his decision. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: Any further questions on the attorney's report? <br /> <br />Let's then go back on the agenda and report on southwestern Colorado <br />ground water investigations. <br /> <br />Mr. Biesecker: Mr. Chairman, directors, I am Jim Biesecker, district <br />chief of the Colorado District of the United States Geological Survey. <br />We are here today to make a progress report on our ground water recon- <br />naissance of southwestern Colorado. This is a study that was started <br />July 1, 1973. It is cooperatively financed by the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board and the United States Geological Survey. I would <br />like to emphasize that this is the first ground water resources <br />appraisal ever conducted in southwest Colorado. I would like to turn <br />the presentation over to Gene Hampton who is one of our prominent <br />ground water geologists in Colorado. Jim will make a very brief <br />presentation. <br /> <br />Mr. Hampton used a projector and overhead slides for his presentation. <br /> <br />Mr. Hampton: Southwest Colorado is a very large area which will show <br />up on this slide, if I can get it projected here. (slide) About <br />18,000 square miles and covers about sixteen counties. (slide) The <br />Southern ute Indian reservation covers this corner of the area and <br />that is the only one part of the area that we have looked at yet, or <br />anyone has looked at, as far as we can find. <br /> <br />(slide) My next slide is a blowup so that the members of the board <br />and others can see the major drainages in this area. When we finally <br />looked at the area, there were not very many people there. There <br />are about 85,000 people according to the 1970 census and of those <br />85,000 about 35,000 live in the cities and town. <br /> <br />We set forth to find out what we can about the ground water resources. <br />We have quite a number of streams and these streams in this area all <br />drain from the San Juan mountains. They are utilized for irrigation <br />and for public and private supply. In most of the area, most of the <br />domestic water supplies and a lot of stock supplies come from wells. <br /> <br />-23- <br />