BOARD00985

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

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MR. KUIPER:

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. KROEGER:

MR. STAPLETON:

.MR. SPARKS:

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your name and your organiza~ion for Whom you
are speaking, please.

I think before we begin this discussion
for the members of the legislature and for
our audience, I ought to introduce the members
of the Board. First, Mr. Jim Geissinger, repre-
senting the Attorney General on the Board;
Mr. Williams from Grand Junction; Mr. Burr
from Walden, the northern part of the state;
the new state engineer for the state, Mr.
Kuiper. Glad to have you with us in your
first <official capacity."

"Thank you, Ben."

"Mr. Moses, the attorney for the Board
and a prior member of the Board and prior
chairman or"the Board; Mr. Sparks, whom you
know; and my distinguished co-chairman from
Durango who got here by Frontier Airlines,
Fred?"

"I came another route. Sam came_
Frontier! "

"Mr. Ten Eyck who is the Director of
Natural Resources; Mr. Pickrel from Rocky
Ford; Bob Myers you have already met; and
Herb Vandemoer from Sterling and Aspenl He's
our versatile member of the Board I

With that introduction, I would like
very much to have Mr. Sparks begin this dis-
cussion."

"Mr. Chairman, at this time I will review
some of the past efforts that have been made
to solve some of the water problems of the
state without reference to specific legisla-
tion. It could be seen some ten or twelve
years ago, and further back, that the water
supplies of the State of Colorado were reach-
ing a state of exhaustion as far as new
appropriations were concerned. For all prac-
tical purposes, the surface waters of the