BOARD00188

• Board Meeting Date: 11/14/1962
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. KUIPER:

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. KUIPER:

"All right."

"\tIi th your permission, Mr. Chairman, I'd
like to reverse these next two items as the
first one requires some slides and the last
one doesn't."

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"All right. Then let's go to the Arkansas
Valley municipal water problem."

"I'd particularly like to report here
that members of the staff of the Board met
with the municipal league district in the
lower end of the Arkansas Valley last month
to attempt to assist those municipalities and
the Southeastern Water Conservancy District in
working out the details that would be neces-
sary for a municipal water supply system in
the Arkansas Valley as it is connected with
the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. We hope to
continue to work with them. As you all know
from very recent newspaper publicity, the
water quality is very poor in the lower region
of the Arkansas Valley and we think that the
Fryingpan-Arkansas project is a good vehicle
for improving that quality and we are working
with them toward that end.

The next item that I would like to get
to is a matter that came up after the agenda
was sent out and there is a very short dis-
cussion here. It goes back to some work
which was started by the staff of the Board
some two or three years ago and which, because
of the press of other business and circum-
stances, we have not been able to follow. We
hope that if Larry gets back to the Board we
will be able to get back into this again.

Thi s deals wi th the phreatophyte problem,
generally in the state of Colorado and specifi-
cally in the Arkansas River Valley. Some two
or three years ago we instituted a survey of
the entire state to determine whether or not
there was a phreatophyte problem in the State
of Colorado. This was only, I don't know if
you could dignify it by calling it a

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