BOARD01106

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

Any time you start draining water
away from here, what is going to happen?
What is going to happen to this level?
It's that simple. I would like to sit
down with all the engineers and maybe I'll I
learn something. Maybe I will. If we
didn't have pumping in this valley, you
wouldn't have a water table, you wouldn't
be -- you wouldn't be planting crops just
like you do and you wouldn't be pumping
for many years.

We are in a dry cycle. Not too many
years ago I spent some time with a hyd~ologist
of the Federal Government studying the tree
circles that. can be carried back, the tree
ring circles can be carried back 500 years
by archaeologists. It would be instructive
if you would go to Mesa Verde and about
every 400 years there is a dry cycle and
we are in that cycle, we are a third or
half way or whether we are out this particular
year doesn't make any difference but they
generally last from 75 to 100 years and
then it will come back again. And it just
happens that the data on which the compact
woo based was taken from the end of a long
period of moisture, precipitation. Now
we are suffering from that.

Now that will change again but isn't
the sensible approach, instead of tampering
with the Lord's handiwork -- and when you
start doing that you had better be sure
that you have been in close communication
with God or his agents when the reclamation
engineers and hydrologists Or whatever
you are, you better be sure that you know
what you're doing.

Sure, we all want water. It is dear
to my heart. When I go into the city
I even had a quarrel with one of my
clients. We stayed in a hotel and he left
the water running and I said, "Shut that
off, man." "Well, what the heck, we are
paying for it." "Shut it off. I got kids
coming up." Water is very, very vital.
It has been 28 years ago -- and it was a

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