BOARD00985

• Board Meeting Date: 2/5/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. KROEGER:

"I've already expressed to Larry the fact
that part of the problem he has is his own
fault because he called in all the attorneys.
He could have called in us pretend attorneys
from the northeast and the northwest and we
would have solved this thing quickly and
easily because we are more direct and we
don't use up so much time.

I

I approached this thing first with bold-
ness and then with frustration and now with
apprehension. I have about concluded that I
am a coward I So. daring to pull my head out
of the sand momentarily. I would say that
our problems from the area I represent are
certainly very. very simple as compared to
the groundwater situation that has developed
in the state. As I mentioned to Ray Moses
last time. I said 'Ray. as all this emerges
are we really ready for it? Do we really
have to do it?' And he said. 'How much
longer are you going to duck the question?'

In reviewing Mr. Geissinger's bills I
become confused. I just can't follow all of
the various ramifications. One of the things
that I fear in this is that in creating this
water engineer and the powers they have estab-
lished for him. he becomes the engineer and
he becomes the jury and the judge and he
becomes the man that creates policy and ad-
ministers the policy. He has to be an
agriculturist. an agronomist. a horticultur-
ist. and most of all he has to be a humani-
tarian. I really question if it is possible
for anyone man to do this. This disturbs me
and I'm sure you have heard this elsewhere.

I

The creation of water rights commissions,
as Larry has suggested in his bill. has caused
me to ask the question of how do we - and I
think I'd like to address this to Larry and
have him answer it - create uniformity then
in these various districts? I can see in
our own area where a water rights commission