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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. WHITTEN: <br /> <br />1717 <br /> <br />If the Ground Water Commission and the <br />State Water Conservation Board wants to ask <br />for appropriations to make a study on the ground <br />water situation I would be the first one to <br />help you. Senator Rogers and I drafted a reso- <br />lution, or an appropriations billL for the Colo- <br />rado State University Experiment ~tation for a <br />two year study on the ground water recharge or <br />a base for ground water recharge. I think that <br />a lot can be done if our officials can recharge <br />this water in places like the Wiggins area where <br />there is nothing more than the natural recharge <br />and I think the College Experiment Station is <br />going to come up with some of the answers. Other <br />states are doing it. California is spending a <br />huge sum 'of money on ground water - the artifi- <br />cial recharging of ground water. <br /> <br />I want to repeat that if this Water Con- <br />servation Board and t~e Ground Water Commission <br />want to ask the Legislator for appropriations <br />to make a technical study before they change <br />the ground water law, I will sure give them all <br />the help I can. I won't give them any help <br />about ,changing the ground water law until we <br />know more about what we want. <br /> <br />Thank you. " <br /> <br />"Thank you, Senator Oliver. <br />our State Engineer, do you have <br />want to sayr ' <br /> <br />"Mr. Chairman, I would like to make one or <br />two comments. In kicking around what has been <br />said here this morning relative to this ground <br />water, one of the problems is the shortcomings <br />of the present act. I can say, we find in the <br />administration of this act that there are de- <br />finitely shortcominqssin tte act. We have pre- <br />sented to the Legislature some matters for their <br />considerations which were the main objections. <br />We didn't pass any of them. <br /> <br />Mr. Whitten, <br />anything you <br /> <br />We have no authority, as Mr. Cuykendall <br />pointed, out, to enforce even the present act <br />except under what you might term the general <br />police power of the state - a lbng, tiresome <br />process of'an injunction action. We have even <br />threatened that on one or two occasions but we <br />have never carried one out yet. <br />