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The question is this:. Are these man-made irrigation reservoirs ~s . opposed to natural lakes? Our preliminary data indicates they are. and if they"are.- the question..of course, runs to a minimum level retained in a reservoir which is used for irrigation. Discussions recently with same Grand Mesa irrigators indicate that certainly": some of those Grand Mesa lakes were drawn last year and" . certainly will be drawn this year.. . MR. HELTON: If they're man-made:1akes. we'd like to know about it. ,and we'll take them off the list. " MR. SPARKS: Yes. Our instructions. by law. are to file only on natural lakes and streams. Grand Mesa has some 500 lakes. most of which are natural lakes to start with. but have been enlarged. I If there are cases where we have made errors in determining what is a natural lake, we will certainly correct those errors. MR. STAPLETON: Any further discussion? . (No response.) There being none, we will now turn to the second agenda item, progress report on . cooperative river basin studies for the Rio Grande and Arkansas River basins ~ythe United States Soil Conservation Service., Who will make that report? MR. .sPARKS.: r-fr. Chairman. Mr. Niles Glasgow.: I. would like to preface this agenda item by stating that working with the Soil. Conservation Service has been one of the most rewarding experiences that I have had over the years that I've been in the water business. : .. . I have been extremely impressed over the years with the breadth and scope.: of the activities of .the Soil Conservation .service. I: consider it one of the better. if not the :best. agency of the Up.ited States GOVe1;"11- ment, :and that's. saying a lot . Usually I criticize the federal agencies at some time or another ,:. but I have nothing but praise for the.. Soil" Conservation Service,. . ". It has done a tremendous job in assisting this Board in evaluating the water and land resources of the State of :Colorado. As the Board knows. we have .now finally, after some fifteen years of effort and several million dollars, completed our land and water resource inventory of Colorado River, and published reports on each of the sub-basins. . . The ma~orpart of that work was done by the Soil Conservation Service. Now we re expanding that program to include the rest of the State. MR. GLASGOW: Thank you, Mr. Sparks, I'm sure we will appreciate those comments. I Mr. Chairman;: I'm Niles Glasgow, and I'm an economist for the Soil Conservation Service. working on the Rio Grande River Basin study, and will be working on the Arkansas once. we get into this activity. Progress that we have made on the Rio Grande River Basin study. recently -16-