BOARD02195

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

expect to live in this area until retirement
and will probably die here. This area is my
home, my career, and whatever I can do or say
to make it better is my goal.

I

I will diverge a little from the printed
words here (Mr. Osborne had passed out copies
of his written statement) since they have upon
these walls relatively good and factual maps
of the situation with which we are confronted.

Continuing on, in the matter of additional
storage facilities on the South Platte River,
they are needed and they are needed badly, in
two forms, both underground and above ground.
The underground is the most important because
it is the most efficient. The above ground to
gain the element of time necessary to transfer
to the underground.

The first consideration is the hydrology.
The need is here without question but the
available supplies are what we have to work
with and no amount of reservoirs, ditches, etc.
that we might build, can ever do the job with-
out the basic ingredient - water.

I

There is a renewable resource, the rain-
fall on the drainage area plus the trans-
mountain diversions. This volume fluctuates
from year to year. We use it for washing,
drinking, recreation, industry and irrigation.
Each use ends up by taking some as a consump-
tive use in ~hat evaporation and transpiration
uses are lost to a system as it affects this
area and is gone, the remainder is reused if
it can be obtained by residents further down
the river. Many evaluations of this process
have established without doubt the ,natural law
that the higher in elevation the first use is
made, the more reuse can be had. The proposal
of the Bureau of Reclamation as to the Narrows
site below Weld County site denies this law.

The evaluations of the hydrology and the
impact of further transmountain diversion have