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<br />the Durango projects office? There are three definite plan reports <br />one year following right down in succession for the Dolores, Animas- <br />La Plata, and San Miguel. We in the Durango office want to express <br />our thanks to Fred Kroeger for all the work that he helped us to get <br />started. We are virtually a new office. There was a small planning <br />office there before funds were made available for advance planning. <br />Fred has done a wonderful job in getting us acquainted and getting <br />us going in the area, and helping us with the problems, We needed <br />his help very much for the other parts of the project area; we <br />appreciate the help of the board that we had in that area. Along <br />with the conservancy districts, this is your project and this is <br />where the emphasis should be put. This is the timetable that we have <br />before us. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Thank you. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: Thank you, Ed. Are there any questions? I think not. <br />Thank you very much, it has been very helpful. <br /> <br />Mr. Wiscombe: Thank you, sir. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: All right, we'll now go to the next item on the <br />agenda. Shall we try the air conditioning? <br /> <br />Well, let's have Ted Moulder give us the report for the USGS. Ted. <br /> <br />Mr. Moulder: Mr. Chairman, today we want to make a special report to <br />your board on a recently completed project. The project was sponsored <br />by your board and funded jointly by the Four Corners Regional Commis- <br />sion and the Geological Survey. I will give you a little prespective <br />on what the project is all about. It is the demonstration of a water <br />quality model to see how accurately it can predict conditions and <br />predict water management practices and changes in water management <br />practices. Now, the way this fits into the total program is, as you <br />will recall a number of years ago, how you foresaw the necessity for <br />modifying water management plans in some of the river basins. They <br />would be either modified by legislation, by regulation or by happen- <br />stance through the operation of the courts. So anticipating some of <br />this, we needed some kind of a tool to predict what kind of effects <br />would result from various water management plans. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />During the past five years then, we have developed what we think is <br />a very excellent model. It will predict what changes in streamflow <br />will occur and what changes in the ground water reservoir will occur <br /> <br />-21- <br />