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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />project loan, if the state of Colorado will appropriate the amount of <br />money requested as part of the project expense. <br /> <br />I believe there's someone here from the Overland today. So would you <br />like to make some statement at this time? <br /> <br />. <br />MR. WHITE: Mr. President, members of the Board, I'm Marvin White, Vice- <br />President of the Overland Ditch Company. Our consulting engineer is <br />here, and I would like for him to make a few conunents on behalf of the <br />Overland Ditch Company. <br /> <br />MR. SCHUSTER: Mr. Chairman and members of the Board, I am Ray Schuster. <br />Our firm has been retained bv the Overland Ditch and Reservoir Company <br />to complete a feasibility study and report for the small reclamation <br />project loan. <br /> <br />The original reservoir was built in 1905, and it was enlarged in 1950. <br />This enlargement is what caused the problem. The original reservoir was <br />built in stable ground. In 1950, they raised it seventeen feet and <br />impounded six thousand two hundred acre-feet of water. <br /> <br />In 1957, the base of this reservoir became saturated and a five hundred <br />foot section dropped five feet overnight. As a result of this, the <br />State Engineer restricted the capacity in the reservoir to 5,000 acre- <br />feet, and the reservoir continued to fail, and then he restricted the <br />capacity to 4,000 acre feet. <br /> <br />In the early 1960's, the Overland Ditch and Reservoir Company hired us <br />to do a study and report for the Bureau of Reclamation. This report <br />was completed and submitted in 1972 to the Bureau of Reclamation, and <br />it had all' the features that were approved by the Forest Service, the <br />Bureau of Sports, Fisheries, the State Game and Fish, and the Bureau of <br />Reclamation, and everybody that was involved. <br /> <br />In 1971, prior to being submitted to the Secretary of the Interior for <br />,approval, there was an amendment to the Small Reclamation Act, which. <br />virtually shot down the Overland project as it was proposed. It was <br />proposed for an 8,069 acre-foot reservoir. The cost at that time was <br />estimated to be one million eight hundred thousand. <br /> <br />Due to being' put in a situation where we couldn't afford to build the <br />reservoir, we re-studied and redesigned and came up with a smaller, <br />lesser reservoir that could be constructed at the estimated cost of one <br />million five hundred thousand in 1972. This reservoir would hold :-":,-',,- <br />7~270aacre~feetDof water. <br /> <br />We are now presenting virtually the same plan to the Bureau of Recla- <br />mation and to the Colorado Water Conservation' Board for approval. The <br />cost now is estimated at two million six hundred thirty-two thousand, <br />of which we would like. to get eight hundred and fifty thousand from the <br />state of Colorado. The Ditch and Reservoir Company is going to have to <br />contribute eighty-six thousand. We'll get one million six hundred <br />ninety-six thousand from the Bureau of Reclamation. <br /> <br />~31- <br />