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I I MR. STAPLETON: MR. MILLER: MR. PUGH: MR. MILLER: MR. STAPLETON: MR. CUYKENDALL: "Thank you, MI::' Haffke. ". "Mr. Chairman. the next one on the list here is James R. Pugh of the Bijou Irrigation Dis- trict. Mr. Pugh." "I think Mr. Haffke has covered everything pretty well. I don't think I have anything else to add." "Maybe it I turn around and look, I'll see these people quicker than going down the list. Mr. John Cuykendall, Chairman of the Ground Water Commission." "Mr. Cuykendall." "Thank you. Mr. Chairman, members of the Board and members of the General Assembly who are here, there is one aspect of this proposi- tion or of this proposed plan that I'd like,to speak about and that is the matter of the stor- age of ground water on the Bijou Creek. I understand that that is part of the proposed study. Those people out there are pumping their ground water out - some of them may not quite agree with me on that fact - but I think we have that human tendency to sweep the un- pleasant under the rug at times and they have spoken many times in meetings of the necessity of a storage reservoir on the upper watershed of Bijou Creek whereby these floods would be stored and could be returned into the ground water system more easily. There may be some questions brought up about the matter of in- terference with surface rights on the Platte River below the mouth of the Bijou. I think that one of the things that will be brought out in this study is the fact that the floods that reach the Platte River are not a great many. Most of them disappear in the lower sands of the Bijou Creek before they get to the river. I don't know how the matter of cost-benefit is going to be worked out because, definitely, those people who are pumping ground water there will have to have some share in the cost