BOARD00284

• Board Meeting Date: 1/12/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. OGILVIE:

MR. BEaTHELSON:

Has the Denver Water Board studied or do they
plan to study the development of underground
water resources in or near Denver?"

"They are certainly not overlooking it.
There are some opportunities I am sure for
development. We have some wells at the present
time that do produce water for us and we are
not overlooking it. Underground supplies have
been studied rather extensively by the U.S.G.S.
I think our underground supplies in the Denver
community are not projected as being extensive.
There are other areas that are more developable
as underground supplies."

"One other thing that troubles me, and
I'm not trying to just put Denver or anybody
on the spot particularly, is that we are faced
with an ecological matter on practically all
of the streams in the State of Colorado. A
case in point - recently there was a proposal
before the State Water Pollution Control Board
to raise the standards on the Eagle River. In
other Words, make it a cold water fishery and
raise the standards and make it a good fishing
stream. The Board was not only troubled by
Redcliff and some of our towns that are still
dumping raw effluents into the river but they
were troubled also by the diversions that are
proposed by the Denver Water Board.

Somewhere down the line we are all going
to get caught in the same trap. The standards
on these rivers are going to be enforced some
way or another, I presume. I was wondering -
how do you propose you will participate in this
thing to keep the standards up on the Eagle
River? Those who take water from the river are
going to have to participate and those who dump
effluents into the river are going to have to
be a part of the picture. Certainly if you are
going to divert another 100,000 acre-feet from
the head of the Eagle River, this will affect
the ability of that river to meet any standards~