BOARD02033

• Board Meeting Date: 5/8/1963
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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there could be some carryover from Narrows and
some other things as has been pointed out."

MR. MILLER:

"As I understand the progress of these proj-
ects, if Henrylynn, the Farmers Reservoir and
Irrigation Company, the Fulton Ditch, the City
of Denver and two or three metropolitan areas
got in here and said 'We'll put up the money'
this would indicate to the Bureau and to the
Congress that we're serious about this and
would increase vastly our opportunity of pro-
gress. Is this correct?"

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MR.. KNIGHTS:

"I think that I s correct, yes. There's nothing
that gets money like money."

MR. NELSON:

"Mr. Knights, I I d like to ask what are the
two alternate schemes mentioned in the third
paragraph of your letter on page one on the
Homestake? It mentions two alternate schemes,
what are they? Briefly and basically what are
those plans?"

MR. KNIGHTS:

"That's on the handling of the water on
the eastern slope. There is a question there,
you. see, on the Hornestake water as to whether
or'not.it would be carried. down the Arkansas
River, particularly whether that portion brought
into Colorado Springs would be carried down the
Arkansas River and delivered in the same fashion
as Colorado Springs' share of the Fry-Ark water
or whether it would be brought over TrOll t Creek
Pass and delivered into the South Platte and
into Colorado Springs in the manner in which
they now bring in their Blue River water, a
similar manner to that. Aurora's water, of
course in any event, comes across Trout Creek
Pass and down the South Platte.

Those are the two alternate schemes that
were mentioned there, Bill."

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MR. NELSON :

"How far would Aurora's water go in the
integration in the Fryingpan facilities?"

MR. KNIGHTS:

"That's part of the thing we are studying
now as to how that would be carried; whether it