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........,.... MR. STAPLETON: NR. SPARKS: MR. STAPLETON: MR. ODELL: On the Closed Basin report we have been working closely with Nr. Kuiper on that. There is no reason Why that shouldn't go right along. In view of all the hollering about drought here I think I ought to do a little hollering. It looks like we'll have about 50% all through the Valley but we are good groundwater-wise. Now that's going to have a kickback. If this is a repetition of '51 and '52, which it looks to me like it will be, we'll be short compact- wise 25,000 acre-feet this year; next year, with a good runoff, 150,000 short; that's 175,000 added to your present 721,000, so you can see what a terrible position Colorado is going to be in compact-wise the following year, starting wi th this dry year. I That's about all I have, Ben. Thank you." "Thank you, Bud. Any comments?" "vIe're glad you're so cheerful:" "Hearing none, I'll ask Jack Odell to give us the U. S. Geological Survey report. Nr. Odell. " "Mr. Chairman, members of .the Board, guests, the Geological Survey now has started preliminary work on the groundwater observation network on the western slope. That is under way at the present time and during the next fiscal year we expect to expand it considerably. There are several groundwater reports that have been released to the open file and which later will be published. One is 'Prospects for Irrigation in Eastern Cheyenne and Kiowa Counties'. This was completed and copies were transmitted to the Water Board about the middle of Narch. A second one 'Records, Logs, and Water-Level Neasurements of Selected Wells and Test Holes, and Chemical Analyses of Ground Water in Bent County', should be completed during the week of Nay 6th (that's this week). It has been desig- nated as Basic-Data Report No. 14. I