BOARD00226

• Board Meeting Date: 4/1/1970
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. SPARKS:

MR. BERTHELSON:

MR. SPARKS:

MR. VANDEMOER:

MR. SPARKS:

MR. VANDEMOER:'

MR. SPARI<S:

MR. SMITH:

MR. PICKREL:

MR. SPARKS:

MR. PICKREL:

MR. SPARKS:

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"Do you have any right of condemnation on
this?"

"No, we are not exercising any right of
condemnation. This is strictly a willing
purchaser-buyer agreement. Whether the state
has the right to condemn that water is open to
question. In any event there is no plan to
utilize condemnation.

Any questions on that?"

"Do you have to buy all the shares? Is
your offer contingent on getting all the shares?"

"No, 1200, which together with some other
water rights that the corps of Engineers owns
which they will turn over to the state, we
could get by with 1200 shares. But as a margin
of safety for critical periods we really need
the entire water right."

"Larry, would that land become dry land
then?"

"It would become dry land, yes."

"They have no wells under that ditch?"

. "That's the state engineer's prOblem I "

"Thanks a lot."

"Larry, what are the means of changing the
point of diversion?"

"We would not have to change it. We could
divert the water at the headgate and right into
the reservoir."

"If you only acquire a portion of that you
would have local users who are still along that
ditch. "

"'!'hat's right, but they would be entitled