BOARD00284

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

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for this, first, you gentlemen are all
familiar with the manner in which this proj-
ect operates, the Big Thompson. Early in
the summer when the runoff is occurring the
water is flowing from Grand Lake down to the
lower lakes. It is during that period that
the water is relatively clear and no pollution
problem of any substance exists. But along
about the middle of July the eastern slope
irrigators call for water. They start running
the water back through the tunnel and it is
during this period from about the middle of
JUly until the lakes freeze for the winter
that the extreme pollution problems occur.
They occur because of an accumulation of algae,
phosphates and a lot of other effluents from
this Grand Lake sewage disposal plant which
has been mentioned. Steps are being taken to
partially correct that problem. Steps we
understand are now being undertaken to correct
the problem of the government campgrounds
which, as 1 understand it, was seeping primary
effluent into the Shadow Mountain Lake. As the
summer wears on this polluted water is worked
through the whole system and over to the eastern
slope.

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What we are concerned about and what we
would like to see occur, we are really begging
for help because we are just too small to take
on the job. oMe would like to see some legis-
lation introduced in this session of legislature
which would accomplish this. Our prople would
certainly be glad to work with this organization
to get a bill drafted to create a district, a
big sanitation district that takes in all these
lakes so that this disposal plant that Mr.
Smades referred to down at the far end of
Granby Lake can be built.

We feel that it is not too early to start
on this because these things take time. We
hope that through this organization some
federal assistance can be obtained. We think
that the federal government being the prime