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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />give the Governor some answers first as to how this B.9,ard feels. <br />Mr. Brooks: Right. <br /> <br />Mr. sxarks; <br />shoul .. come <br />am sure the <br />your Board. <br /> <br />Mr. Brooks: <br /> <br />As far as these projects are concerned, the primary advice <br />from the conservancy districts sponsoring the projects. I <br />Board is not going to act without considerable input from <br /> <br />I would be pleased to meet on that date. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: I would like to see if there is any input at this point <br />that would be helpful in regard to the Governor's suggestions, or would <br />you like to analyze it in greater depth with your District Board first? <br /> <br />Mr. Brooks: I would like to analyze the letter, but if there are any <br />questions I might be able to answer in connection with the letter, <br />that might be raised in your mind, I would be pleased to do so. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: Why don't you tell us of the changes and use of the <br />water onth~ project, from the inception to the present time, some of <br />those facts? <br /> <br />Mr. Brooks: At its inception it was primarily an irrigation project - <br />now, when I say "inception" I go back to the late 1940s and early '50s. <br />Our area has changed considerably since World War II and is continuing <br />to change. The industrial demand, primarily the domestic demand have <br />increased tremendously. At the present time, there is approximately <br />9,000 acre-feet of irrigation water, the balance is domestic and <br />industrial. This irrigation water is for approximately 4,500 new acres <br />to be put under irrigation, and the balance supplements the existing <br />water for land presently irrigated. <br /> <br />Our population growth, while not phenomenal, has been steady, and we <br />have far outgrown the available domestic water. The Tri-County Con- <br />servancy District in 1969 proceeded to install a rural domestic system. <br />It was designed and planned that within ten years the Dallas Creek <br />Project water would be available, that would be by 1979. In the mean- <br />time Tri-County purchased water from the City of Montrose, not only <br />for its users, but also for other domestic companies. We have run <br />out of water at the present time. We are trying to take some make- <br />shift steps as a stop-gap measure. We hope we can do so and last :.. <br />until the Dallas Creek Project is ready to deliver water. What is <br />hurting at the present time is domestic water. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: Can you break down the use between municipal and indus- <br />trial, .those two categories? I think that is what the Governor's <br />letter is concerned with, not municipal, but industrial use of the <br />Colorado water in energy requirements for other areas, with possible <br />pollution of our water in the process. Can you tell me how much the <br />municipal and industrial is at the present time? <br /> <br />Mr. Brooks: In the present program there is somewhat less than 30,000 <br /> <br />-21- <br />