BOARD01106

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

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and overall economy of this state, not
only in the present but in the future
and on a long range basis; because when
we make decisions such as the one we are
talking about here today, we are making
decisions that are going to effect
generations after generations of people.
People who will occupy this land after
you and r are gone.

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So we don't want any hasty decisions
made and, certainly, we want to develop
all of the information that we can develop,
technical and practical, and any other kind
of information and we want to have that
information in language that the ordinary
individual can understand and translate it
out of the trade talk of the engineers and
the technical people so that we all under-
stand what we are doing and what is being
proposed.

At that meeting some years ago here,
after considerable discussion, it was decided
that we would make the study and that we
would match the $25,000 contribution of the
Bureau and proceed with this $udy on the
basis that it would provide us with some
information and it has. r have had concern
over this problem, the Rio Grande problem,
for a long time and we can go on lamenting
the fact that we are obligated under a
compact to do certain things and we can
wring our hands year in and year out and
the longer it goes the deeper in debt we
get.

Over the last eleven or twelve years,
this state has gone into debt continuously
on our water obligations on the Rio Grande.
r don't approve of the compact wberein we
are required to deliver water that we may
not even get and go into debt to supply
water we don't have. But these treaties,
these compacts, have the force and effect
of a treaty. We have one foreign nation
involved and at least two other states and

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