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<br />Colorado River Water Conservation District in <br />which we are joined by the Middle Park Hater <br />Conservancy District on this agenda item and I'd <br />like to read the statement please: <br /> <br />-.... <br /> <br />'This statement is an expression of the <br />view of the Colorado River Water Conservation <br />District relative to a request of the City of <br />Ft. Collins, Colorado, to use facilities of the <br />Colorado-Big Thompson Project to export a part <br />of the priority right adjudicated to the Mitchell <br />Ditch, from the Colorado River Basin in the <br />vicinity of Grand Lake, Colorado, to eastern <br />Colorado. This request was discussed in a memo- <br />randum of August 22, 1963. addressed to this <br />Board by Director Sparks. <br /> <br />It might very well be, if there was an <br />assurance that requests for use of Colorado-Big <br />Thompson Project facilities for exporting non- <br />project water from western Colorado were strictly <br />limited to the requests made by the Cities of <br />Englewood and Ft. Collins, no objection would be <br />interposed by our District or other western Colo- <br />rado interests. However, as you well know, there <br />is at least one other proposal which if manipulat- <br />ed and presented in the guise of requests from <br />other municipalities to use these same facilities <br />to export water from other sources in western <br />Colorado and a precedent had been set by approval <br />of the request being considered here today, the <br />result would be far reaching and very injurious <br />to the future development of western Colorado. <br /> <br />--- <br /> <br />We refer in particular to the proposal of <br />John P. Elliott, who as a private speculator, is <br />endeavoring to work out a far flung collection <br />system in western Colorado to export water there- <br />from, with the use of the Colorado-Big Thompson <br />facilities, allegedly for municipal purposes in <br />various cities and communities in eastern Colo- <br />rado. If he obtains authority by virtue of a <br />contract with the Bureau of Reclamation to use <br />the Colorado-Big Thompson facilities, then most <br />certainly the practice would injure not only the <br />western Colorado uses specifically provided for <br />