BOARD00683

• Board Meeting Date: 7/8/1980
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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CHAIRMAN KROEGER: Tommy Thomson:
MR. TOMl1Y THOMPSON: I want to support the

stipulation, the program that the Board has adopted down

through the years, because otherwise this Board would be in

constant litigation with a lot of water districts, including

our own.

So these stipulations I think are very important. The

ones that we have entered into have been carefully thought

out with the Attorney General's office too. You can be sure

of that. You did not supersede ours nor did we supersede

yours when we worked in harmony. If we don't work on the

stipulation you're going to be tied up in litigation that

you won't have enough lawyers to handle it.

MR. JOHNSTON: I don't have any problem with the

stipulations if you follow the statute, but as far as I'm

concerned, it doesn't follow the statute. It recognizes that

--,all it does is recognize the preexisting right of a

senior user and then says without limitation, and the problem

that I'm having with these languages is that it allows any

kind of exchange uses,

And I'm not really too concerned about the South Platte,

but I'm terribly concerned about these transcontinental
diversions and this kind of loose language is that allows

exchanges.

I think the stipulation should be entered into as a