BOARD02138

• Board Meeting Date: 9/11/1963
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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1<1R. STAPLETON:

MR. SMITH:

happened. I couldn't use his language because
there are ladies present but I know that this
certainly is in violation of Senate Document
No. 80. I've heard Silmon Smith tell this story
and I know he would certainly agree with that
statement.

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If it isn't in violation of Senate Document
No. 80, it's in violation of the resolution
passed by this Board in 1959. If the Big Thomp-
son isn't a federally financed transmountain
diversion I don't know what is.

Fort Collins says they can't buy any more
water. I would like to suggest that if you want
to buy water, if you put enough money up you are
going to get the water. Several years ago Grand
Junction built a reservoir at a pretty expensive
price - $600 an acre-foot. I don't think we've
paid for it yet but we are paying. We went out
and bought the water, we didn't ask the federal
government or anybody else, we paid the price.
If the city can't buy, you can always condemn.
Grand Junction did that too. We had water going
by us in the Gunnison River, going by us in the
Colorado, and we had to put filters on to even
drink the stuff. It was so thick you couldn't
even look at it without putting it through a
filter. I've still got one of those filters.
To get some water we had to strain it so we went
to get some mountain water. We condemned water
and we got the water. Some of the farmers in
Kannah Creek would still like to shoot us in
Grand Junction.

We're gun shy of all transmountain diver-
sions. We just don't want to become a thief of
Texas. California and Denver. We want some
developments on our own.

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I'd like to call on Mr. Phil Smith who
wishes to present a statement and I will give
copies of it to each member."

IIMr. Smith.1I

"Mr. Chairman, I have a statement here of the