BOARD01477

• Board Meeting Date: 2/5/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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quantity of water claimed in terms of acre
feet, regardless of whether storage or direct
flow'. An irrigator doesn't know how much
water he is going to use in terms of acre-
feet. I just wonder how many guys around
here realize that. He sure doesn't. I've
seen years that I didn't divert half the
water when I used to own lots of water. I
had a big ranch. Some years you wouldn't
divert half as much out of the river as you
would another year. So I don't know how
you could confine that to something definite.
I don't believe the average irrigator can do
it. I can realize where a city might do a
pretty good job in determining the amount of
acre-feet of water they are going to need
but I don't know that an irrigator can do it,
year by year. I don't think he can.

There is another thing I thought might
need some clarification. I'll find you
another one here. It's practically the same
thing as down here on page 12, line (4), the
bottom part, 'the maximum rate of flow in
cubic feet per second or gallons per minute
if applicable, an annual quantitative
limitation in terms of acre-feet'. Again,
you come back to acre-feet, I don't think
a man can determine that. I don't know how
he can. He could lose a crop by trying to
make that determination because some years
it will rain like the devil and he doesn't
need to irrigate much, other years it is
pretty dry and he has to irrigate quite
often.

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Larry, there was another one here, maybe
I can find it. It had to do anyway with the
storage of water for recreational purposes.
I am as firm a believer in recreation as
most people around here, but I do think that
you've got to have stored water with a con-
stant level of a reservoir that should be
limited as far as the State of Colorado goes.
The fi.,rst thing we know, the Fish and Game