BOARD00531

• Board Meeting Date: 5/7/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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water supply to the valleys is unevenly dis-
tributed with respect to the demand. We have
the demand curve here in red. This is a
representative supply of surface water to
meet that demand. You will notice that we
have an excess early in the year and a deficit
late in the year. People down in the valley
are pretty darn smart and they found out there
were wells available in the area and they
could meet some of these deficiencies by in-
stalling wells. They installed wells then to
try and overcome this deficit that comes in
the late part of the year. In so doing they
created a serious problem and that is that
they affected the surface rights picture that
was long established. Now some people are
getting ground water supplies, they are sub-
tracting from the surface water supplies and
the rights structure has been thrown haywire.

As a consequence your Board has recog-
nized this problem. They proposed legisla-
tion. Jimmy Geissinger was given the charge
to come up with some legislation that could
be passed and that would help solve this
problem. I am sure that nobody is happy
exactly with the legislation but it looks
like we are going to have some this year.

This is one of the major points that I
have to make and that is, that at this time
this is when the payoff for these kinds of
studies start. At this particular time this
kind of information is going to be most
useful. In order to administer this water
this kind of information is required.

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In the Arkansas Valley, which we have
used pretty much as a prototype, the princi-
pal techniques have been developed. First
we found out where the water is, then our
aim was to predict what would happen to the
water under various plans of water management.
We are nearing perfection of this particular
tool and we believe that it is perfected so