BOARD01033

• Board Meeting Date: 11/13/1963
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. MILENSKI:

and nothing further. Whether or not this
pool can actually be established is a question
yet to be decided. But it cannot be decided
until the first step takes place.

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In any event, this will be expensive. It
will be difficult to work out. There are many
obstacles ahead. But we cross our bridges as
we come to them and we are approaching the
first one now.

That is essentially what is before this
Board at this time."

"Now at any time during this discussion,
obviously any member of the Board can ask
questions of any speaker. I would ask now if
any members of the Colorado Water Conservation
Board has any questions of Mr. Sparks before
we proceed further. Hearing none, I'll then
ask Mr. Frank Milenski, the Board member repre-
senting that area, if he has a statement he
would like to make." <\

"Thank you, Ben. This morning, when we
were talking about the ground rules, that'
there should be no repetition, I think, in
the past five and a half years that I have
been on the Board, this subject has come up
four times. I started out to dig down through
the Water Board's minutes, the literature we
had received on it and I would say it was safe
to venture there were 200 pages of it in the
Water Board minutes so it's not a new subject
to the Water Board. It is a belabored subject
and we live on a belabored river. We had the
Kansas-Colorado suit which started about 1900;
the ditches got together and fought this suit;
and from 1916 to 1921 our canal levied a
special assessment to payoff damages to these
two Kansas ditches.

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The reason for the John Martin existence
down there was to settle a dispute between
Colorado and Kansas and up until now it has
done just that. Kansas gets 40%, Colorado
GO"A. of the waters measured at the state line.