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<br />MR. EPPERSON: <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. SNODGRASS: <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. SNODGRASS: <br /> <br />finishes by 12:15 or 12:30 or thereabouts. <br />If we see that it is going to run longer, we <br />will probably adjourn at 12 until 1:30. <br /> <br />It doesn't make any difference to me who <br />starts. Perhaps, inasmuch as the staff has <br />recommended the Narrows site to the Board for <br />determination later in the meeting, we should <br />hear from Mr. George Epperson and his repre- <br />sentatives at this time. So George, would <br />you care to take the floor?" <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />"Jesse Snodgrass, who is chairman of the <br />Water Users Association, will take charge of <br />the presentations." <br /> <br />"Fine. Mr. Snodgrass. <br /> <br />Again, I would like to remind you of the <br />microphones." <br /> <br />"I am also the President of the Bijou <br />Irrigation Company which, as you probably <br />know, lies upstream from the Narrows site. <br />I have copies of the Bijou statement and I <br />suppose I should pass them out." <br /> <br />"If you will, please." <br /> <br />"The statement from the Bijou is brief <br />and it contains not too much technicalities <br />about water supply, our decrees, and so forth. <br />Those things do come out in later reports. I <br />shall read this: <br /> <br />'Although it is apparent that a site for <br />a dam on the South Platte River is to be <br />selected which is unfavorable to the Bijou <br />Irrigation system, a statement of our position <br />seems to be proper at this time. Throughout <br />the last fifteen years or more the Boards of <br />the Bijou system have believed in and worked <br />for channel storage on the South Platte River. <br />In 1960 we were instrumental in reactivating <br />interest in such a project and were convinced <br />that a site could be found that would be far <br />enough upstream to serve the Bijou and Riverside <br /> <br />I <br />