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u~ , ,. THE DENVER PC\'IT Tuesday, June 1, 1993 Villagers, country club at odds over creek CREEK from Page 1 B naI, is controlled by the Denver Water De- partment on a year-to-year basis. IT the water department decided to end the club's contract, then Little Dry Creek could become Glenmoor's main water sup- ply. In addItion, if there's a dry year, the High Une supply could be cut off midway througb the summer, said Larry Dirts, Denver Water Department water engi. neer. The question of stream flow could be de- cided this summer by the Colorado Water Conservation Board at its July 22-23 meet- ing in MeUer. Friends of L1tUe Dry Creek hope to pact several dozen people into vans and travel to Meeker, just to let the board know there's a lot of popular sentiment for a ruling that would ensure that water stays in the creek year--round. Tbe Colorado Division of Wildlife bas recllded the board set that mini- m at 2.15 ds during the spring an er months, and 1.75 els during fall winter. Because the average flow is higher than those minimums, the division of wildlife recommendation would be a painful com- promise for Greenwood Village Council. Tourists . . InspIre bike tour By The AsSQlCiqcl Press An idea parUy inspired hy German tour- ists' visit to the Navajo Reservation bas evolved into a 500~mile mountain bike trek raising funds for Gallup community projects. "Tour de Rez" organizer Tom Riggen- bacb said at least_ 30 riders are expected this year, the event's third, including a group from the boarding school in the res- ervaUon community of Shonto, Ariz. The H)-day ride begins Friday in Shonto, I . NIW MIXICO I where it will end June 13 after winding its way along mostly dirt roads. Riders may io..n th tour at any point along the route. . re expected to gather pledges fo ile completed, with the money goin n organization in tbe rider's community. Riggenbaeb, a junior higb school teacb- er at the boardin~ school. said the idea for made their town so livable. "All of those old cottonwood trees and willow trees would eventually die if the creek wasn't there," said Georgie Fer- nandes, a Cherry Hills Village resident who bas been taking stream flow mea- surements for about the past year. "There's DO question if you lose those trees that you lose the ambiance of the villages that draws people bere." But for some, the water level in the creek goes beyond aesthetics or concern for the environment. Janet Justice-Waddington lives in a house along the creek that depends on )I 48-foot well for its water supply. t "It's a fairly marginal well," she saicf. "So if the creek went dry or Glenmoor was successful in its petition. I have no dou~ that the well would dry up." 1 The nearest water main is 500 to 1sb feet away from their home, and although Justice-Waddington says she doesn't kno~ how much it would cost to hook up to the main, "It wouldn't he cheap, that's fOr sure." I Justice-Waddington said she was lla~ bergasted when she learned that the co~ try club was eyeing the paltry amount of. water in Little Dry Creek. "We just never dreamed that anyone would ever try th. late a water right from this little~' I I i i ! i The Oerwet Post I Kent....... DIVERSION FOES: Gail Pappa.. left, end GreenwoOd Vlilage Councilwoman Myrna Paticha are concerned about loss of habitat if UttIe Dry Creek is diverted. woman Myrna Poucha. "We're not certain the wildlife recom. "We could lose significant amounts of mendation is stringent enougb." habitat even under this proposal," Poticha To some residents of the villages, what's said. at stake is the pbysical beauty that bas Expert at trial charged GENRICH trom Page 16 lanik filed the contempt charge, Massaro recused himself and Me- sa County District Judge Chock Buss is to hear it. Whetber O'Neil sbows up re- mains questionable. A d.eputy U.s. attorney, Stephen Taylor, filed a motion to quash the contempt charge last week, saying O'Neil was not served properly and "does not admit that be is subject to the jurisdiction ot this court." Nieslanik wants a special prose- cutor appointed and suggested Ed Nugent, an attorney in private practice in Grand Junction. Sh~ also asked that an attorney expe- rie~ed in the Code of FederaI Regulations be appointed. : ErkenBrack concurred in a se~ arate motion that a special prose- cutor should be named but said Nue:ent should not be because of a