BOARD01412

• Board Meeting Date: 2/16/1953
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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clearings increased 113 per cent in three years, a little in excess
of $500,000,000 each year; that postal receipts have increased 83 per
cent in seven years or $1,000,000 a'year; and that the Public Service
Company has had a steady growth in the maximum hourlY demand for kilowatts
from 1930 to the present time.

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Mayor Nev~on announced that representatives of some of the
defense establishments were present to explain to the Board the needs
of those establishments for water, and called on Brig. General John T.
Spra~e, Commanding General of Lmvry Air Force Base.

General Sprague stated that the population at Lowry Air Force
Base was 17,000 at present and that in the next ~wo or three months, it
was expected to increase to 20,000 or more. He said that Lowry used
3,000,000 gallons of water a month from the Denver. system. He exp:!-ained
that the system on the base has a capacity of taking 9,000,000 gallons
of water a day, and at the present time, Lowry Field has the capacity
of housing 20,000 people.

Mayor Ne,vton then called upon Admiral Gilbert C. Hoover of the
Rocky Flats Atomic Energy Plant.

Admiral Hoover explained to the Board that one of the reasons
this location was picked for the Atomic Energy Plant was the availability
of utilities. He referred to the contract with the Denver Board of
Water Commissioners concerning their water supply.. Admiral Hoover
stated that he considered the Rocky Flats development one of the key
plants which ,vill have to be kept in operation during this time and
asked that the water supply to Rocky Flats be continued.

Mayor Nev~on introduced Brig. General Paul I. Robinson,
Commanding General of Fitzsimons Army Hospital.

General Robinson stated that in fiscal year 1952, Fitzsimons
used 355,866,000 gallons of water, and the estimate for fiscal year
1953 was 400,000,000 gallons. At the present time, he said, there
are 1,800 patients and that figure probably would be doubled in
mobilization although the water consumption would not increase
proportionately. General Robinson stated in in mobilization 500,000,000
gallons of water per year would be needed to supply Fitzsimons.

Mayor Newton called on Colonel A. W. Meetze, Commanding Officer
of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal next.

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Colonel Meetze stated that the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, located
about eleven miles northeast of Denver, was essention to the national
security and could not operated Without water. There are, at the
present time, he said, 2,000 persons employed and by May 1953, there