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I I MR. BITTINGER: MR. COYKENDALL: MR. STAPLETON: MR. BARKLEY: If you are going to help those people in the ground water matter, you are going to have to go up from the reservoir somewhere in the neighborhood of the old Nile and I think that a study that ignores that possibility is going to be worthless to those people out there. You may say 'Well, that water must come down to supply rights on the river'. I think if you'll make a study of the Bijou Creek, we have some data on Kiowa Creek which is a companion water- shed and they are very much alike. We have some study on Kiowa Creek that shows most of the water that comes down Kiowa Creek originates somewhere south of Highway 40 - I believe that is the right number but it is the one that goes down to Kansas City. Is that correct, Mort?" "It's 36. I believe." "36, well, probably 36, yes, Highway'36. And from then on as far as Kiowa Creek is con- cerned, the water flow becomes less. I don't know whether Mr. Bittinger has the data with him on that but I know that it's available. If a reservoir is not built, up on the upper end of Bijou Creek, the money that is spent on it down at Wiggins, in my humble opinion, is money just wasted as far as coming to a benefit to that area." "Thank you, Mr. Cuykendall. Are there any further comments? Mr. Barkley." "Mr. Chairman, I can't refrain from com- menting at this point, and this is something I did with the Steering Committee on the South Platte, that we as a state have appropriated $100,000 on this main channel study, the Bureau of Reclamation has $300,000 to $400,000 that they wish to put into it. I think the general feeling of the Steering Committee was that we're missing an opportunity here, as John Cuykendall has very readily pointed out not only in his area, but because for many years there have been proposals for upstream storage on Clear Creek, on Boulder Creek, on the St. Vrain and on the