BOARD02386

• Board Meeting Date: 3/8/1972
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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lakes of Colorado. lfuen I told some of the
people in Washington that I was coming out
here particularly to look at the lakes I got
kind of a laugh treatment. They said. 'Well.
if you are going to study lakes. go to Florida,
Wisconsin, northern Indiana. Minnesota,
Michigan, or maybe New York, where they really
have some lakes, and where the country looks
like this (slide) lots of water, green water.
blue water, gray water, take your choice.'
To those of you who have been around, you know
that this photograph isn't Florida, New York,
Louisiana. Indiana. Michigan, Wisconsin or
Minnesota. This is Colorado. which was taken
up north of Fort Collins from small aircraft
2,800 feet in the air. You can see that the
bodies of water almost fall on top of each
other. Of course, they weren't there 200 years
ago but they are there today. They are impor-
tant in the state's economy and they are impor-
tant to a lot of people. To go a little fur-
ther out in the southwestern. or the south-
central part of the state, these (slide) are
the Russell Lakes. Here again you see bodies
of water piled up right next to each other,
and this photo shows that the bodies of water
aren't really doing too well out there. May-
be, they are worth a little more study.

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Another interesting aspect of lakes in
Colorado is in connection to the growth of
urban areas. (slide) This picture is of
Kendrick Lake at Kipling and Jewell. I throw
this picture in because I live here. This is
a whole new area of new housing that has built
up in the last couple of years. If nothing
else, I think it shows that water attracts
people. and that these lakes attracted people.
It is very possible that many more housing
units will be developed centered on lakes.
The south side of Kendrick Lake is a county
park that is maintained by Jefferson County.
At least there aren't houses on this side of
the lake.

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