BOARD00198

• Board Meeting Date: 1/15/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

The other thing, Mr. Ten Eyck has put
his finger on the fundamentals and that is
that the way this problem got the way it is
is because we have temporized waiting for
utopia and if we will work at this another
125 years, utopia will not be here yet. The
legislators, several of them, have expressed
the view the Chairman has and so has Mr.
Sparks, that the legislature is going to do
something this session. They were very
reluctant not to do a major job in the last
session. The legislature expects to do some-
thing this session. ~ne committee meetings
will be held every Monday morning commencing
next Monday at 8:00 o'clock and if there is
more work than can be accomplished before the
Houses meet, that meeting will then be ad-
journed to Tuesday morning. The reason for
this is to accommodate people from distant
parts of the state who would find it diffi-
cult to get to meetings that are separated,
perhaps one Monday and one Thursday. SO when
people do feel the necessity for coming in
from a distance and being heard, they'll know
they will be able to stay over one night and
then the matter won't come up for another
week.

So far as the facts are concerned, of
course Ralph Owens has given it to you ,but
Quincy, ,in his usual manner, has put the thing
in one sentence p~actically and thishascbeen
o~e of the major s~ruggles of the committee
and that is the fact that if we do not pro-
tect and preserve the priority system of the
surface ditches, we will have destroyed
almost all the wells in Colorado because the
engineers have pointed out in their maps that
the recharge for the wells comes from the
ditches and the natural infiltration from
irrigation into the alluvium from which the
wells are supplied.

I think one thing Jim did not emphasize
enough, perhaps that's because he is the one
responsible and it is really quite a compliment

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