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MR. FICKE: "This is Marston Lake (slide) at the south edge of town, a part of the south Denver water supply, and the Marston filter plant is located over here at the other edge of the lake. This is the west edge of the lake, Wad~orth Boule- vard going out here, and here again are the large crops of rooted vegetation growing on the western edge of Marston reservoir. I The Denver Board -of Water Commissioners have data on what these plants are and we are now working on putting these data together determining what we can pick off these photo- graphs. Here they don't really project so well as you can see them when you sit down and look at them on a light table. Here again, you see the red pattern of the Pinehurst Country Club and the golf course. I have discussed Cherry Creek reservoir and the recreational aspects of Cherry Creek reservoir. If you have ever recreated on Cherry Creek reservoir, you know what it's like. At least in late summer it contains large algal growths, or large algal blooms. This (slide) was a Sunday and apparently there was a sail- boat race on Cherry Creek reservoir. These are the sailboats. From here I can see the little shadows that are cast by the sails of the boats in the afternoon. You can see several lines across the water. In fact, you can see a line that comes across here and then turns and comes back up here to this sailboat. This is actually the track that this sailboat has plowed through the algae in the water as it sailed down here and then tracked to go back on its race. This certainly is a good indication that you have a good biological crop of some kind or another, growing in Cherry Creek. I You can see Cherry Creek reservoir here again (slide). You can see the growth of rooted vegetation along the shore, a little bit of sun glare through here, and even with -46-