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<br />them beginning to know now. It's west:of Grand Junction, and we're a <br />little ways from the state line, the Utah line. <br /> <br />Some time ago Ed Currier, who'~ been an~engineer with the Colorado <br />River Board, and I got toget4er; We both had similiar ideas about the <br />salinity.program in the Grand Valley, one of the four'salinity control <br />programs on the Colorado River, and we would like to.propose and put <br />some more land into production. .. <br /> <br />Some -- I'm guessing -- some of it. would be in Utah, and if we could <br />get some of Utah's water rights to fulfill that part of this, but there <br />is an ideal spot and some of the land that's been going out in metro- <br />politan areas -- I see losing the sugar beet factories up north of town <br />because it's going to population. We got the same problem over there. <br /> <br />The main reason they're losing the sugar bee~ factories is, of course, <br />the price of sugar dumped on the market, but anyway, we would like, <br />and Ed Currier has done qui~e' a little work. We took it t9 the Grand <br />Junction Chamber of Commerce, got their approval, and last night 'at the <br />Mesa Soil Conservation District meeting, and it wasn't a legal thing <br />because they didn't have a quorum, but ther~ was nearly enough therefor <br />a quorum. <br /> <br />I told them thati was coming over here today and would ask the. Board <br />to put some legislation for a study. "It do.esn't matter whether it's <br />in the long bill or where it's at. <br /> <br />Mr. Chairman and members of the Board, I'm going to compliment the <br />Board~or yoqr decision in Montrose and raising particular heck with <br />the Bureau of Re~lamation dragging their feet on the western Colorado <br />projects because I was ten years on the water committee in the Colorado. <br />House, and I know that when Central Arizona starts diverting water out <br />of Parker Dam, California is going to get it. They're using.part of <br />that '.water now, .and they're going tOl get that. water, and if we don't <br />put it to, beneficial. use in Colorado, and:I think in farticular in <br />weste~ Colorado because of the salinity problem, you re going to make <br />it a little more of a problem if you divert much more. . <br /> <br />I would like to propose that the Board consider a study for use in <br />connection -- for more beneficial and recycling use of some of the waters <br />in the Colorado River that enter the state line. <br /> <br />There's going to be a lot of water saved in one of my -- one of the <br />original proposals, and I was one of the earlier ones that worked on <br />this salinity thing, was to try to line the canals and laterals over in <br />the valley, and with the help of you and. Congress we've got. an act, and <br />that's one of the four pr~jects. <br /> <br />So, I'd like to propose that you would recommend to the legislature <br />and have them finance a study to see haw we can use this water. I think <br />that's the way you go about it. I don't care. whether it's an extension <br />of the government project. I think I would prefer if it were private <br />enterprise, but it doesn't. matter. It would work with.the extension of <br />the Grand Valley project, but there's some hundred acre-feet of water <br /> <br />-28- <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />