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<br />MR. ODELL: <br /> <br />"Mr. Chairman, members of the Board, ladies <br />and gentlemen, I am sorry to have to report the <br />sad situation of runoff in the State of Colorado. <br />This last month was the ninth consecutive month <br />when the runoff was below normal. The way <br />things are going there is no improvement in the <br />immediate future. I was very much pleased at <br />Bob Jennings' report that we have obtained as <br />much water as we have in Glen Canyon and it <br />appears now that we have really made some <br />progress and I think it should work out very <br />well. Apparently all we can hope for is a <br />little more precip in the next couple of months <br />to help us out a little bit in this situation. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Most of our low elevation streams peaked <br />late in May this year. A few of the higher <br />elevation streams, particularly those up around <br />10,000 or 11,000 feet, peaked in the first part <br />of June; one peaked on the 7th and another about <br />the 15th, the middle of the month. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />A lot of our effort this spring on runoff <br />went into these high elevation stations on <br />the Fryingpan River. I would like to point out <br />sort of a sad situation that has occurred here. <br />This Fry-Ark Project has been in the mill for <br />years and years and it was only after authoriza- <br />tion of the project that funds were made avail- <br />able so information could be collected on <br />streamflows at points of diversion. Those <br />stations were put in last summer. We have one <br />year's record of runoff. These are difficult <br />stations to operate. The only way that we could <br />get in to these areas is on snowshoes. He tried <br />our snow vehicles; a regular snowcat just won't <br />operate in areas like that - you can't get <br />through the trees with it. We did purchase a <br />small vehicle that we hoped would help us out <br />but it wasn't too successful. So it was a <br />matter of some just hard work on snowshoes to <br />get into these stations. <br /> <br />Leo Gamble is, of necessity, working on a <br />design for this project starting this month. <br />Like I say, we have one year's record on this. <br />The boys, I think, have done an outstandin~ job <br />