BOARD01764

• Board Meeting Date: 2/16/1960
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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opposed. Now whether we are an agency or what,
I don't know. But we have a resolution on our
books opposing any type of permanent pool, and I
think all the rest of the ditches below John Mar-
tin agree with us, and I don't think this will be
reconsidered until a complete plan of operation
of some type is presented to the irrigators to
see how it would work. As you know, we operate
under the Colorado-Kansas Compact and we can see
an extreme amount of difficulty in administering
our water, running it through a pool.

The No. I worry of us irrigators is that we
feel that this pool will cause the dam to silt up
quicker and lose our capacity of a conservation
pool. Secondly, the loss of this silt in our
water when it comes straight through, lowers the
quality of our irrigating water. Our ditches
were all developed for flood control water and
we have more seep problems than we have the
clear water and the silt water going right
through the bottom of the dam does twice as
much good and is of real economic value to us
when it does come that way.

Also we can't understand why the great
necessity of the pool right there when there are
six lakes in the vicinity that would take care of
the Game and Fish much more adequately than this.
Our fish count, when the dam was emptied last
fall, we counted over 99% carp which are unde-
sirable anyway and I don't know how they would
control it in the river if they had it. We feel
that because of the increased quality of the
water coming directly through the dam that this
pool would be a real hazard to the economics of
our . irrigated country and I always' thought that
if the Corps of Engineers were willing to raise
the 10,000 acre limit up in the flood control
stage, it might be the duty of this Board to
consider that lO,OOO or 20,000 feet to add to the
irrigation use probably ahead of the Game and Fish
because we have six or eight or ten lakes that
can be adequately used around there now that are
not fully developed. So I think it should be the
consideration of this Board to make the request,
if this 10,000 can be agreed to with the Corps of
Engineers, to make the request to add it to the
conservation pool and that will benefit the whole
valley above John ~~rtin as well as below.

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The last time I was up there I saw 'no swim-