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<br />Our main line from our water storage goes under this railroad: track, <br />and the ground is a porous type ground and we have anywhere from two to <br />three leaks in our lines at all times along this railroad track. Our, <br />town is constructed on both sides of the railroad tracks. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />. <br />In Weld County, our oil business has increased tremendously lately. <br />When they came into our area about two years ago, we had hundreds of <br />people wanting B place to live Bnd we had no place to live and we <br />couldn't let them build 'anything to live in. We have a large natural <br />gas supply there, and it's being pushed more all the time. We're still <br />being asked to supply housing for these people and we can't. <br /> <br />The new Narrows Dam is going to be coming in pretty soon and the highway <br />going through there to get to this new recreational area, we're going <br />to have a tremendous impact on new business that's going to. have to come. <br />Just yesterday they started coming south on this new uranium deal in <br />the northern part of the county. I don't know whether it'.s lucky or not, <br />but we have coal in abundance under our ground. And they're even talking <br />about, if they ever get to where they'll go to mining this coal. <br /> <br />So we have a lot of resources out there that we know are going to be <br />developed, and we have no way to handle them. <br /> <br />Dale Olhausen, our engineer, is here, and if there <br />We went through our study, which cost seventy-five <br />paid half of it and the local paid the other half. <br />questions of Dale, he will answer them. <br /> <br />. . <br />is any technical - <br />hundred. The state <br />If there are any <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />. <br />MR. STAPLETON: Thank you, Mayor Denton. Senator Jackson has a question. <br /> <br />MR. JACKSON: Would you conunent, sir, on your well rights, what you have <br />now and what you anticipate will be available. <br /> <br />MR. DENTON: We get our water from the Fox Hills which is ,an underground <br />lake to the north and east of Denver. We have problems with the oi1-' <br />companies, too; like a number of you other fellows here do. We had one <br />here a while back. They wanted to flood oil wells out there. So <br />instead of taking surface water, t!1ey wanted our drinking water. Our <br />drinking water has been dropping an average of seven feet a year. And <br />we were told, "Don't worry about it. We've got plenty of ,water down <br />there for another hundred years." But it's hard for me to believe that <br />if you're dropping seven feet a year, that water's got to go:somewhe~e. <br />It's going to run out. <br /> <br />MR. VANDEMOER:Are you in a closed basin there? In other words, do <br />you have to go through some kind of a board before you can drill wells? <br /> <br />MR. DENTON: Not at the moment. ' <br /> <br />. <br />MR. SPARKS: It '.s not considered as being tributary to the South Platte <br />drainage. <br /> <br />_. ~ <br /> <br />,. .".~ ~ <br /> <br />-29- <br />