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<br />the storage of water. In answer to Mr. Miller's question <br />as to how recharge on Bijou could be made, Mr. McLaughlin <br />replied that retention of water so that it comes down <br />slowly, might be the answer. <br /> <br />Mr. C. O. Plumb from Greeley, Colorado, Chairman <br />of the Water Committee, Weld County Agricultural Council, <br />spoke on his organization's previous opposition to the <br />Narrows Dam but that they were now in favor of same if the <br />matter of water rights could be cleared up. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Mr. Vandemoer said their letters were not to be <br />construed to mean that they went along with the Narrows <br />Unit as it now stands but rather they want permission from <br />the Colorado Water Conservation Board to have the Bureau of <br />Reclamation go in there and make a study of the situation <br />of channel storage on the South Platte as it is today. <br /> <br />MR. MOSES: <br /> <br />"We have a resolution from the <br />Northern Colorado Water Conservancy <br />District which I should like to read: <br /> <br />R~~.Qld!110!l. <br /> <br />BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED, that the Board of Direc- <br />tors of Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District requests <br />the Colorado Water Conservation Board to support such efforts <br />as may be appropriate in initiating further studies to deter- <br />mine the possibilities for development of channel reservoir <br />storage on the lower South Platte River in Colorado." <br /> <br />Mr. Olin Webb, Secretary of the Chamber of Com- <br />merce at Fort Morgan, Colorado, read the distinction be- <br />tween the Narrows Unit and the Narrows site. The Narrows <br />Unit is part of the South Platte division of the Missouri <br />Basin project and the Narrows site is the proposed site of <br />the Narrows Dam. <br /> <br />Mr. Harley Beery, Chamber of Commerce, Sterling, <br />advised the assemblage that his area would be lucky if they <br />escaped a million dollars of flood damage this year; that <br />this flood question had been carefully considered and due <br />to strong sentiment in the prevention, if possible, of <br />these floods, that money may be available to further defin- <br />ite action on channel storage on the South Platte. <br /> <br />Mr. Cecil J. Osborne, Riverside Irrigation Dis- <br />trict, Fort Morgan, Colorado, said there was a definite <br /> <br />I <br />