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dead lake as well as Shadow Mountain. Granby is a much larger body of water and little effect has shown up there as yet. I I wanted to bring before the Board the fact that efforts are being made to control the problem. Specifically, I think this Board should, as these problems originate, join with the Public Health Department, the Pollution Control commission, and other state agencies in urging that the legislature authorize more drastic remedial action. As an example, Mr. Smades mentioned that a sanitation district was formed in the Shadow Mountain-Grand Lake area. The original vote was against the formation of the district. Nearly everyone up there has septic tanks or some means of disposal. Septic tanks at the best are only a temporary expedient. Nearly all of them sooner or later will fail and this was what was happening in that area. People were simply discharging raw sewage for all prac- tical purposes directly into the lake. I After the first election, the people who wanted the sanitation district formed, simply went around and asked 'Did you vote for or against this?' They identified 'aginers'. They then adopted the next best remedy. They excluded the opponents from the district and had another election. That's a lousy way to cure pollution problems. Those who want to pollute can and those who don't want to pollute must pay. This is the weakness in our law. I don't believe that there should be any elec- tion about contaminating our waters. In appropriate cases, the legislature could form sanitation districts and make everyone pay his fair share of the cost. The present Grand Lake District is a real germandering job. It has the weirdest looking district boundaries that I have ever seen in the State of Colorado.