BOARD01106

• Board Meeting Date: 2/3/1962
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Now, to give a concrete example,
if you had a pan of water in front of you,
you could either use that water or you
could let it evaporate and we are talking
about using it before it evaporates. I
That is the sum and substance of this
project. It's not water which is being
used up the valley. This water we know
evaporates because it disappears from
the Closed Basin drain and that is the
thing that we would like for you to
constantly keep in mind and this pumping
is the same operation which you conduct
up and down the valley. It's the same
type of pumping except instead of letting
that water stand at the surface and
evaporate, we will pull it off before it
evaporates at the surface.

MR. SHAW:

Mr. Chairman, may I have a moment?
I am Frank Shaw of Monte Vista and this
carries me back 28 years. This carries
me back 28 years to the meeting of 1200
people in Monte Vista on the Closed Basin
drain when Congressman Martin was there
and I don't know who else. When I read
that this was a new approach to this
problem, I had to laugh. The same thing
was discussed at the original meeting.
Mr. Debler (phonetically) was the project
engineer there, now retired, I don't know,
maybe he is deceased, he said it was a
joke. All you were doing was taking a
big lake and making it a long one.

In my office I have all the records.
If the recent gentleman who just spoke
is correct, they are saving only evaporation
water -- at that time, when they started I
before, they had no data on evaporation
water. Now, for the sake of some of you
who do not know me, I am speaking as a
lawyer, as a geologist, as a mining engineer
and I spent a number of years of my life
on that and when we drove them down to
this, they didn't even have data on
evaporation and whsn somebody tells you
they are saving -- going to save a million