BOARD02267

• Board Meeting Date: 5/27/1968
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. ECKLES:

MR. DOUGLAS:

MR. VANDEMOER:

MR. SPARKS:

MR. VANDEMOER:

MR. DOUGLAS:

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"I was hoping maybe you could change your
operation to one in three instead of one in
ten, something along these lines. I don't
care what you take down for data. Just to
maybe encourage the frequency of your opera-
tion. "

"A year age we did a reconnaissance study
of the Upper Colorado River Basin. We have with
C.S.U. right now a program for designing an
operational program. We are certainly antici-
pating that something will happen in the Upper
Colorado Basin. When that does, we want to be
ready. But it's a surprisingly complicated
affair to design and operate something that is
as rough and complicated as the Upper Basin. It
is interesting that our reconnaissance study
showed that 75 percent of the runoff comes from
13 percent of the geographical area. So there
is no point in messing with the rest of it - the
13 percent is where you work and that 13 percent
is all above 9500 feet and there aren't many
people there so we don't anticipate people
problems. At least we have one advantage in
the west where we get the most benefit from the
operation, there are few people living above
elevation 9500 and consequently we aren't caus-
ing any real people problems. In the east
this is an entirely different situation.

now we have encountered no people
The fact of the matter is the people
very understanding and we have made
effox.t to keep them advised."

As of
problems.
have been
a sincere

"I have just one other question, Larry."

"Mr. Vandemoer."

"In our area we had some conunercial outfits
two years ago that worked on hail suppression.
Are you doing anything with that at all?"

"No, hail suppression is not part of our
program at all. Our program is precipitation
management. Pretty obviously when you seed