BOARD02195

• Board Meeting Date: 9/12/1964
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. WHITNEY:

The others who will introduce their
particular views, present the particular
opinions for their own districts, I shall
read their names and introduce them to you at
this time. There are five of them and will
therefore not take any more time in jumping I
up and introducing someone. For the Riverside
System, Mr. Frank \'lhitney; also for the
Riverside System, (Mr. Whitney represents
the attorney for the Riverside System who
happens to be absent), the President of the
Riverside System, Mr. Robert Samples; for the
Weldon Valley, Mr. Marvin Etchison; the engi-
neer and consultant for the Water Users Asso-
ciation and also the Superintendent of the
Riverside System, Mr. Cecil Osborne; and
employed by the Water Users Association, an
engineer from the Wright Engineer Service in
Denver, Mr. Ken Wright; and our attorney for
the Water Users Association and also for the
Bijou Irrigation Company, Mr. George Epperson.

I thank you."

"Thank you, Mr. Snodgrass. I take it then
that Mr. Whitney of the Riverside will be our
next speaker, please."

"I will pass out copies of my speech.

Gentlemen, I am representing the 22,000
acres of Riverside now being irrigated. We
have 11 miles of inlet canal and 90 miles of
distribution canal. Our reservoir capacity
is 63,000 acre-feet which leaves us 20,000
acre-feet of shortages each year. If we could
deliver this additional water we would be up-
graded from a marginal irrigation system to
class 1A which requires at least 2 acre-feet
per acre.

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This reservoir is built on a gravel shelf
having 6-1/2 miles of concrete face dike with
deliverable water of about 30,000 to 35,000
acre-feet per year.

There are several ways in which we could