BOARD01683

• Board Meeting Date: 5/12/1967
• Description: Agenda, Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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REP. KOSTER:

"To speak third, after two men who have
studied water for many years, it's hard to
bring up another item. However, I've been
definitely interested in water, especially in
Chaffee county for the past 45 years. I pre-
dicted at that time that we would need proper
regulations and file on flood waters. I be-
lieve that we should have more accurate
records of the return water to the river.
I believe that we should have measuring
devices sufficient so that we could get the
proper records. I hope, out of the $50,000
allotted for study under the 407 law, that
there will be set up a public relations point
of having each decree placed in a book or a
folder according to the date, according to
the acre-feet, and according to the location
of the ditch that is taking the water out of
our Arkansas River.

I appreciate that we each possibly have
notations of decrees in District #11 and in
the five districts that pertain to the lower-
ings of the A~~ansas River. However, I believe
that they should be tabulated in such a way
that each district, each community, would have
this tabulation on the priority of the ditch
IIlhere it comes out. I think that would be a
great public relations because when a man
sees that he should allow so many acre-feet
or so many second feet of water to pass his
headgate, he'd have that information and he'd
feel a little better toward the users of the
flm~ of water at the lower end of our great
river, the Arkansas.

It's a pleasure to be here. I am most
definitely interested in water conditions in
Colorado. Thanks for being invited."

MR. STAPLETON:

"Thank you, Representative l<oster.

Before we get into the agenda items, I
would like to introduce, and I know he needs
no introduction, a former member of this
Board, a very interested and distinguished