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I connection with that reservoir. A series of meetings were then called by this Board by the then Director, Judge Stone, to determine whether or not any agreement could be arrived at and whether or not construction should proceed on the project. I think two or three meetings were held at various points and some rather spirited discussions took place concerning the project. Before the meetings were consummated, all those that were planned, Judge Stone died, and that is where the matter has been since. The federal government finally folded up and crept silently away since they heard noth- ing further from the state over these many years concerning the project until recently. The Board will recall, in 1957, October I believe it was, a delegation from the South Platte Valley asked our Board to reinitiate studies in connection with this Narrows Proj- ect, and particularly to evaluate other potential plans. Now it takes time, through the federal government and through our own Legislature, to get any money appropriated for these types of studies. There has been some grumbling, of course, in Washington as to why in the so and 50 don't you people make up your minds in Colorado. So it hasn't been easy to get this thing going again. But with some state money that we put up and with the money that the federal government has put up, recon- naissance type studies were initiated to deter- mine if this plan could be improved upon, knowing at this time that many conditions have changed. I It has been over fifteen years ago - or something like fifteen years ago - when the final plan was worked out on the Narrows. Since that time many changed conditions have occurred on the South Platte. The water supply situa- tion has changed considerably. The Denver-Blue River development has occurred and other devel- opments by Denver and other municipalities. The old Blue River-South Platte plan is no longer -- well, it's dead, since Denver has developed the salient features of that original