BOARD00444

• Board Meeting Date: 1/11/1961
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. MILLER:

MR. SARCHET:

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in the South Platte has an interest in the
development of reservoir storage on the Platte
and that has been indicated over a long period
of years. Some of it has been very controver-
sial but for the first time now, it appears
that we get one overall study that will do the
job.

This matter was brought before our board
last Friday. They are heartily in favor of
seeing it done.

Thank you."

"Thank you, Mr. Barkley."

"Mr. Mel Sarchet is President of the
Farmers Irrigation Company and, if my memory
serves me, he has the longest irrigation sys-
tem with the greatest number of miles in the
state. I'll be glad to be corrected on that.
Mr. Sarchet:"

"I don' t want to take up much of the timE!
here. As Mr. Miller has mentioned, the Fatm-
ers Reservoir and Irrigation Company is a
mutual irrigation company with some 600 stobk~
holders who are the owners and irrigators of
about 80,000 acres of irrigated land situated
roughly' between Denver and Greeley, west of
the mountains and as far east as the weld
County line. Our water users and stockholders
divert water from the Platte River, Clear
Creek, South Boulder and they, most of them.
have insufficient water rights so they would
certainly be interested in any development of
storage on the Upper Platte in which they
could participate.

I would like to concur with the ideas
expressed by Cecil Osborne and John Cuykendall
and the other gentlemen from the Riverside at
Ft. Morgan, that the most efficient use of the
water in the Platte River can be best served
by some storage higher on the Platte River
than the Narrows or the Hardin proposed dam
would provide.