BOARD02497

• Board Meeting Date: 7/14/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. NEWTON:

to determine what those desires are."

"All right now. We have eighteen speakers
who would like to be heard. We are still on the
second one. Some of you have some questions and
I hope other speakers will answer or at any rate
if the members of the board don't object, we'll
push on to the next speaker and we'll try to
keep everybody advised, and so forth.

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Thank you very much Larry, at this point.

The next speaker is Mr. W. A. Newton who is
a member of the channelization committee.
Mr. Newton."

"I am W. A. Newton, Columbine Country Club
representative for the Platte River Channelization
committee, the one Mr. Sparks spoke about. It
has been meeting now over a period of years. And
I want to say that both Littleton and South
Suburban, Englewood and all the communities and
landowners that are affected by the Platte River
channel have been a member of that committee and
have attended all the meetings.

As far as Columbine is concerned, I would
like to give you a brief resume of what our
interest is. In 1957, the Corps of Engineers
held meetings as they are required to do, to
further their plans for the building of Chatfield
Dam, recognizing that a major flood could take
place in this valley. At that meeting there
were several that attended - there was only one
group that was for the building of the Chatfield
Dam. That was the Columbine Homeowners Associa-
tion. I was president at that time, and a
geologist. I'have bought a lot out here and I
bought it up on the terrace for that very reason,
because I could recognize that this flood which
they said hadn't taken place for thirty years
could take place anytime. So, Columbine was for
the building of the Chatfield Dam, but the Denver
Water Board and numerous others were against it.
We, being a small minority, lost and there was no

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