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. MAC CORNACK:

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and then we'll open the subject up for dis-
cussion.

Mr. MacCornack is a resident of the area,
part-time resident at least, and well familiar
with the situation. Will you give us your
observations?"

"Mr. Chairman and members of the Board,
speaking completely unprepared, with no notes
at all, I'd like to say just one word in
addition to what has already been said - the
question of eutrophorism, which means a big
word but it means a lot. It means that once
a lake starts to deteriorate as they have in
most Grand County areas then the process
becomes irreversible, it is gone. Recreation
is gone; the whole thing is gone. The economy
of the state is gone because the lakes become
so polluted all the way through that tourism
is gone. No longer do you dare swim there.
People have become sick up there this summer.
This summer the algae because of the BOD con-
tent of the water has grown four feet in
Shadow Mountain alone.

Now when you consider those elements and
many more besides that then you are facing a
very serious problem as Mr. Sparks pointed out.
This is only one instance but by the same
token why is Grand Lake and Grand County so
important? Because of the lower basin states.
Therefore Grand Lake and Grand County become
a very important consideration.

Another problem we have and a very im-
portant one, unfortunately we have no funds.
The government says we would like to have
participating funds, matching funds. We have
no funds. Our particular position is this, we
are acting only under the auspices of the
Grand County Commissioners but they have no
money either. So our big problem is going to
be to try somehow to get legislation passed
to help out this desperate situation we have