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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. WUERTZ: This is Dale Olhausen. He is our consulting engineer. <br /> <br />MR. OLHAUSEN: Mr. Chairman and members of the Board, I would like to <br />speak briefly to the water rights and the well considerations. We have <br />investigated these to some degree and have discussed it with the state <br />Engineer's Office. We do understand that, in order to obtain well <br />permits. and so on, that it will be necessary to take out a well permit <br />and make application for the same. <br /> <br />We also intend that we would talk to the neighboring property owners <br />there near the town and, particularly. for the deep wells where we <br />are anticipating drilling to the Larimer-Fox Hills aquifers. We would <br />negotiate with the property owners there to obtain rights to those <br />wells in the area. <br /> <br />In the immediate area of Hudson, there are very few deep wells at this <br />time, because they are rather expensive and limited. We don'tantici- <br />pate that this should be a particular prOblem, even though we do <br />understand that procedures have to be followed. The shallow well water, <br />certainly, there is some additional well water that we are talking <br />about obtaining there. And, again, we have to negotiate with some <br />property owners nearby. <br /> <br />The property that the town is on itself, of course, the town would have <br />the right to drill for water there and obtain the water rights for <br />that water lying directly under the property owned by the town. <br /> <br />Also, it is anticipated that those developers or property owners that <br />would ultimately add property to the town by annexation, and so on, <br />would be obligated to add their water rights. <br /> <br />Perhaps that helps just to comment on those. There are costs included <br />for purchasing and negotiating, for those water rights within the <br />estimates in that proposal. <br /> <br />MR. KROEGER: Thank you. Mr. Olhausen. I notice tJ'lat when the comments <br />were made in regard to Nunn and Limon that some of the gentlemen that <br />spoke once before jumped up on their feet, and I presume they want to <br />make some comment with regard to those projects now. <br /> <br />MR. HALLEY: My name is Ron Halley, of Hydra-Triad. with regard to <br />Nunn. one of the things that perhaps was not clear in the summary and <br />was discussed in the detailed feasibility report is that the water <br />rights were the water source from the adjacent shallow aquifer. It <br />would be basically a transfer and still would fall under the general <br />agreement that Nunn has with GAST at this time. We ~re not developing <br />new sources of water. It is merely a transfer arrangement, and this <br />has been discussed with the state Engineer's Office~' So it has been <br />covered, and there should not be any problem in th~s extent on trans- <br />ferring over. The existing rights do exist. The problem we do have <br />'is water quality with the existing wells. ' <br /> <br />MR. VANDEMOER: You have two new wells in the summary. That is what <br />confused us. <br /> <br />-23- <br />