BOARD01663

• Board Meeting Date: 8/6/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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problem with saline water, there are
areas in the state where municipalities
are now using water with dissolved solids
in excess of a thousand parts per million.
In some cases almost up to 2,000 parts per
million.

We met most of yesterday with a repre-
sentative from the Office of Saline Water.
reviewing possible places in Colorado
where some experiments could be conducted
to determine the cost of removing a large
part of the dissolved solids. At the
present a portable plant has been moved
into Fort Morgan. Fort Morgan is one of
the cities that is having a problem with
a heavy concentration of dissolved solids.
We have a considerable fear that this type
of water problem will become more aggra-
vated with the passage of time. As the
use of water increases, the amount of
dissolved solids is certain to increase.

We are now looking at a statewide
program which might involve such areas as
the Piceance Basin. In that area recent
studies by the Geological Survey have
shown that a considerable amount of ground
water exists which would be of great bene-
fit to the potential oil shale industry.
However, the quality of water leaves much
to be desired. This is one area which we
might be able to take a look at to deter-
mine the cost of removing some of the
minerals. Then we can compare those costs
with the cost, let's say, of piping water
in from the White River. In each case it
is comparative costs that we are looking
at to try to determine what is the cheap-
est method of delivering potable water.

There are areas in the Arkansas
Valley that now have a bad water situation.
The town of Las Animas is one of the worst
in the state. The water is so bad that a

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