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<br />114 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Vice-Chairman Bailey asked if Denver had anything further <br />to add to this discussion. <br /> <br />lfr. Saunders, speaking for Denver, commented as follows: <br /> <br />"This situation has been treated as somehwat of <br />a political matter. The political nature is indicated <br />by the concentration of geographical area represented. <br />The question has arisen as to whetiler or not the <br />approval of the Fryingpan-Arkansas diversion so tied <br />the Board's hands as to preclude the consideration of <br />other projects for the development of the remainder of <br />the State. No public official has the right to destroy <br />his povTer to act. Mr. Delaney and other representatives <br />of the Western Slope referred to the resolution that no <br />further federally financed transmountain diversion <br />projects be built until investigations on the Western <br />Slope are completed. Does the :Iestern Slope ask that the <br />Water Board refuse approval of any project simply because <br />it is a transmountain diversion project?" he asked. <br /> <br />"While the 430,000 acre-foot Blue River Project <br />might have injured the ',1estern Slope, no one has <br />indicated how this Denver proposal would be injurious <br />to the ';/estern Slope. If the ,"[estern Slope .vill not <br />be injured, why are we having this opposition?" <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />"Regarding the subject of palTer, it would not be <br />wise for Denver to build this tunnel that will carry <br />788 c.f.s. and then not use it to generate power. It <br />is hoped that the Denver metropolitan area can organize <br />and work ,vith the Thlreau for full development of this <br />project. The Bureau of Reclamation has not yet come <br />up ,lith a plan to go to Congress. Denver cannot wait. <br />We cannot forget when we were out of water in 1933. <br />If the Bureau has not yet designed its project by the <br />time the tunnel is built, Denver will then build . <br />hydroelectric plants and use the revenues from such <br />plants. It is still hoped, hcw{ever, that the Bureau <br />of Reclamation VQll have a plan designed by the time <br />the tunnel is finished." <br />