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<br />I <br /> <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. MILENSKI: <br /> <br />*'v""..., <br /> <br />demand on the stream under the old use. <br /> <br />In my opinion there are ample safeguards to <br />the irrigators afforded by our own courts. I <br />think the courts have been very careful to see <br />that irrigators are not injured in either a change <br />of point of diversion or a change of type of use." <br /> <br />"I think we ought to hear from Mr. Milenski <br />in regard to the Arkansas Valley. Frank." <br /> <br />"The conservancy district the other day <br />voted to approve the bill. We had some recom- <br />mendations to go with it. One of them is that <br />any water bought on any land, that the land be <br />retired so they can't keep twin calves that the <br />cows got and go ahead and pump water and never <br />lose a thing which would be one method of doing <br />it. Another is to put the Water Conservation <br />Board in with the Chief of the Engineers of the <br />Army, the State Engineer and the Arkansas River <br />Compact Commission, and before this comes about, <br />that the terms and conditions shall be publi- <br />cized thirty days prior to it. <br /> <br />Actually I was down with the flu the other <br />day and didn't get up there to the meeting but <br />suppose you could live with this 10,OOO acre- <br />feet, we'll say today. I don't think you can <br />live with it twenty years from now. They'll <br />want twenty or thirty or forty. It depands upon <br />how much sedimentation you get in the thing. <br />What we can live with today and in twenty years <br />is another thing and my personal opinion is that <br />you can sit down there ~nd leave 10,000 acre-feet <br />and in a year like 1934 or 1954, nature is going <br />to take it away from you. I really think we are <br />trying to make an agreement that nobody can keep <br />in the best faith they can possibly do it. <br /> <br />The irrigators have repeatedly said, and I <br />still think they will agree to it, 'If they can <br />show us a plan by which we can stay whole, we <br />are certainly for a pool'. We'd like to have <br />the plan to know that we can stay whole. tfuybe <br />you have to have the space for the water before <br />you can talk about getting it, but I don't think <br />there's anybody, any irrigator, or hardly anyone <br />in the valley that isn't or wouldn't go along <br />with the pool if they can be shown that it can <br />be filled and maintained and operated where it <br />