BOARD00600

• Board Meeting Date: 3/19/1956
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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This water is highly m~neralized and
could not, without the addition of
vast quantities of almost pure water,
be. used for compact water. However,
should these wells indicate that there
is good water or water in the
approximate quality required by the
Compact, then we would choose in the
general area from the San Luis Lakes
north, in approximately three locations,
a production well that would give
us adequate knowledge of the water
that could be expected to be secured
from. such a well and the quality
thereof. This would b~ shown through
a' test period of pumping which would
vary with each individual well.
Again, the well, in my. thinking, would
be above that first persistent clay
which runs from adjacent to Russell
Lake arid is approximately 75 feet deep
all the way down. The shallowest well
I have record of is about 45 feet,
closer to the sump. That would give
three pump tests up there which would
give us the information, I believe,
in sufficient accuracy to say that that
plan, from the lakes north and west,
is reasonable or out of the picture.

No~ from that region of the plan, we
will move down to here (indicating)
approximately where the drainage
channel crossesthe ground water divide
between the Closes Basin and the Rio
Grande. There is good water along that
line.

The streams from the east side, as soon
as they hit flatter grade, run out
to the lake and in most cases (I have
never seen water flow from those lakes)
over to the sump. However, from the
G. S. report we have definite clues
that there is good water along that
general alignment.

I would propose the same general plan
of determining the possible development
here. Shallow wells establish the
quality of shallow water, giving us an
idea of where a channel might be
located. If things prove, as I think

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