BOARD01033

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

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supply to take care of the losses, that you
could not end up with a 10,000 foot pool. I
think nature will take it away from you. I
think it will absolutely happen. On a year
that you have to put in 5,000 acre-feet to take
care of the losses and if you buy water that
takes care of 2600 feet of it, or any portion
of it, you are going to have that much left
when the season ends or when conditions get
exactly right.

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I would like to know what engineering
studies have been conducted on what the size
of the pool will be in five years, ten years,
twenty years? What the depth of it will be?
How good it will be for aquatic life? Another
thing, have any other sources or any other
sites been investigated? I would say that 90%
of all your problems would disappear if it
wasn't for this pool being on the main stern
of the Arkansas.

The thing to me boils down to just a few
things. Where you get the water, how you run
it, makes a difference to the irrigators.
Also, what your interpretation of what damage
to an irrigator is? Is the fact that he runs
clear water when he could have some water with
sediment, do you consider that a damage? I do.
I'm an irrigator. I know it's a damage. I
know that we can't cover as much land with
water that has been desilted as we can with
water that hasn't. Our ditch comes out just
below the Apishapa; sometimes we get some water
that is mighty thick and we end up maybe with
a pretty good scum over our land but we can
run a row through in an hour. You can take
clear water and put a given amount of water
in it and there are times that you could not
get that row through unless you took the water
off and let the ground firm up and then go
back over it. It will take twice as much water.
I think those people down there need some sup-
port on that fact.

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We also have an increased demand on the