BOARD02195

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

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use of averages will not sustain life entirely
through the area but we can come very close to
it with this thing. So it appears to me that
we are still to be in need if we are going to
try to lock up 90 to 95 percent of our usable
resources which can be replaced during our
flush years to maintain the 10 percent or 5
percent use above ground. It just doesn't
make sense. In fact, we have done that on an
individual basis in this area and we weren't
using the underground here in the Fort Morgan
area. It goes to the Sterling area, it goes
from one end of the river to 'the other. If we
weren't using these resources underground, of
which I am speaking now, we would certainly
have a pretty poor community. And, gentlemen,
I will state and go on, and I think it is quite
evident, as you went from Fort Morgan to Brush
in daylight last night, I am sure, you didn't
see any dry crops in that area or anything of
that kind. For the most part they are excep-
tionally good. Yet those crops were not raised
by water from either one of our reservoirs or
a proposed reservoir. They were raised, on
the most part, by the utilization of this
underground resource which we have and which,
if we can exploit it to the full, we can do
more than we are now doing in terms of land
and water.

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In closing, I want to make mention that
in this go round on this controversey there
has been but very little said about this matter
but I want to also make mention of the fact
there are decrees and rights along the river
reaches that have not been referred to by the
Bureau of Reclamation, nothing said in the
recommendations to the Water Board, and are
certainly a part of this problem that is nOw
being asked for a resolving. We are asked not
to look a gift horse in the mouth, rather I
think we should guard against the entry of a
Trojan horse as far as all of we irrigators are
concerned.

Thank you."