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<br />ll:lbb <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br />MR. BEISE: <br /> <br />doesn't have any adverse effect on the present <br />users of water." <br /> <br />"Mr. Beise." <br /> <br />"I think it might be appropriate at this <br />time, Mr. Chairman, to speak supplementing Frank's <br />statement on behalf of the district on this pro- <br />posed bill which has been studied by the Board <br />of Directors of the Southeastern Colorado Water <br />Conservancy District. I speak only for that <br />portion of the Arkansas Valley above John Martin <br />Dam. That's where the district ends. I do not <br />speak for the area below John Martin. I might <br />say first that the Fryingpan Project and John <br />Martin are of necessity interrelated. In other <br />words, the Fryingpan Project is designed to store <br />only the waters that the Army would spill out of <br />John Martin Dam. Therefore, if the fish pool <br />would appropriate any of the waters out of John <br />Martin Dam that would otherwise have spilled, <br />they are taking, in effect, that much water away <br />from the Pueblo Reservoir of the Fryingpan Proj- <br />ect. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Secondly, the John Martin Dam will be af- <br />fected by the Fryingpan Project because, obvi- <br />ously, it was designed as a flood control proj- <br />ect and if Pueblo Reservoir is built, it will <br />impound, of necessity, many potential floods <br />which would otherwise have gotten into John Mar- <br />tin. In other ~ords, Pueblo Reservoir is 400,000 <br />acre-feet of capacity and it will enable, I think <br />in the future, if these two are properly inter- <br />related, it will take some of the flood control <br />burden off of John Martin Dam and in time permit <br />the conservation pool to be increased in size. <br />I hope that can be done. <br /> <br />So we feel, on behalf of the district, <br />that's just a prelude to say we have a legiti- <br />mate interest in John Martin Reservoir and what <br />is proposed in that area because it does effect <br />the Fryingpan Project. So much as introduction. <br /> <br />I think, as Frank has said, probably eight <br />out of ten irrigators are fishermen and they are <br />basically interested in thi~providing it isn't <br />done at the expense of the irrigators. It isn't <br />just a question of purchasing 10,000 acre-feet <br />of water in one year, creating the pool and <br /> <br />