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<br />~ <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />combine that ~lith the corps of Engineers, <br />Albuquerque District, report. I think I <br />will ask first ~tr. Glenn Saunders to make <br />some remarks and then I will call on the <br />District Engineer. Mr. Saunders." <br /> <br />MR. SAUNDERS: <br /> <br />"~tr. Chairman, members of the Board, there <br />may be some unhappy connotations to many of <br />the things that we do in our water matters but <br />as far as the Trinidad Project is concerned <br />we have a happy situation. It has been a long <br />road - it started away back in 1930 - but as <br />of now, due to the cooperative efforts of <br />everyone concerned, we are in motion in the <br />right direction and Colonel Hottenroth will <br />pick it up when I get through and show you <br />how we are going to implement what has turned <br />out to be a real good thing. <br /> <br />Back in 1930 and in the 40's, the Bureau <br />of Reclamation first investigated the Trinidad <br />area with a view to improving the irrigation <br />practices there so as to provide more water, <br />rather more utilization out of the limited <br />water supplies which are available. In the <br />1940's the Corps of Engineers investigated <br />the possibility of flood control. AS there <br />is no possibility of importation of water <br />into this area, from an agricultural stand- <br />point the country is going to have to depend <br />upon the historical flows of what they have <br />always had. This has to do then with a re- <br />arrangement of the water supplies so as to <br />make them more effective. As far as the rain- <br />fall is concerned, Trinidad is one of the <br />rainiest places in the world. The only <br />trouble is that the rain all comes in the <br />course of about 20 minutes and then they <br />don't see any more water for the Lord knows <br />how long. This is where the flood control <br />phase comes in. It's amazing how much water <br />can flow away in just a very short time and <br />then it all clears up and you'd thi~~ it was <br />a desert again. <br /> <br />The Army Engineers weren't able to put <br />