BOARD01106

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

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MR. PETERSON:

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MR. SPARKS:

MR. SA~IYER:

MR. SPARKS:

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. HOGAN:

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MR. STAPLETON:

two rivers that could be filed on and
diverted over h~re to pay this debt?

Now just a minute.

(Laughter)

There isn't on the Animas because that
is covered with a treaty or with -- not
Iltreaty" -- compact with the State of
New Mexico. ,As a matter of fact, we have
had considerable trouble with New Mexico,
as you will recall, on the Animas River.
There is a surplus of water in this state----

( Interrupting)
at the head of this
diverted?

Is there some water
river which could be

You are talking about the head. I
would say there is but, again, you are up
in the hundred million dollar bracket rapidly
when you start talking about diverting water.
You are in over a hundred million dollars
before you turn around twice.

Next question or comment.

Stanley Hogan. I was interested in
the remark of this gentleman over here a
while ago. He made the statement that
there was more water pumped than when the
compact was written -- he was speaking
about his area -- than there was in the
river. And the question that I am con-
cerned with -- it has been partially
answered -- is there any relation between
ground water and, you might say, the general
flow of the river? Is ground water considered
a tributary of any river or can they just
go and pump -- and they made one statement
"Let the river take care of its debt down-
stream" and we'll go on pumping for our
crops, the natural flow should be diverted.
I would like to know wbat the state officials
think about that.

That is one reason that the Ground Water