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<br />. <br /> <br />1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />26 <br /> <br />I talked to John Newburger, who is the director of the <br /> <br />Department of Water Resources, last Friday and they also are <br /> <br />looking now at construction of the Perkins County Canal as <br /> <br />authorized or permitted by the South Platte River compact. <br /> <br /> <br />That means that they can't want the water down the South <br /> <br />Platte to take care of the whooping cranes and expect to <br /> <br /> <br />divert the Colorado and put it in the Perkins County Canal. <br /> <br />So they're on, I guess, the horns of a dilemma there and I <br /> <br />think they're going to look very closely before they jump <br />in a full blown fight with us simply over the question of <br />getting another 8,000 acre-feet at the plant. <br />So I think that background might be useful. I about <br />five weeks ago notified the Attorney General as required by <br /> <br /> <br />statute and asked that he intervene and Monte and I since <br /> <br />have discussed it. That's where we are at the State <br /> <br /> <br />Engineer's. I think it's a very serious thing. <br /> <br />CHAIRMAN KROEGER: Any other questions? <br />MR. JACKSON: I'd like to hear his proposal. <br />MR. McDONALD: Put the resolution on the table? <br />CHAIRMAN KROEGER: Yes. <br />MR. McDONALD: Mr. Chairman, I would move the <br /> <br />adoption of the following resolution. Whereas the Riverside <br /> <br />Irrigation District and the Public Service Company of <br /> <br />Colorado desire to construct a reservoir on Wildcat Creek, a <br /> <br />tributary of the South Platte River, and whereas the U.S. <br />