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. OLSEN:

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. MELCHER:

Would you lik.e to spl!ak l' "

"I live just south of here in the area the
City of Littleton wants to buy. We have lived
there for four generations. We have become well
acquainted with the river. I think that the
river should be channeled regardless of what else
they do. If Littleton buys that land and doesn't
channel the river, in a few years they will be
back to the Corps of Engineers wanting them to
channel it. We have been flooded so many times
we can't remember all of them. We were flooded
last year and the year before. If the City of
Littleton buys that land, they will have to main-
tain that land or it becomes the biggest weed
patch, the biggest mosquito haven, the biggest
fault in the State of Colorado.

I

Thank you."

"Thank you, I-lr. Olsen. Four generations
deserve to be heard.

Next Mr. Bert Melcher of the Rocky Mountain
Center on Environment."

"Thank you, Mr. Stapleton, members of the
Board. My name is Albert G. Melcher of 1409
South Filbert Way in Denver. I also happen to
be a native Denverite of a couple of generations,
although my mother was out of town when I was
born.

I am a registered professional engineer in
Colorado, director of field services for the
Rocky Mountain Center on Environment, member of
the corps of Engineers Colorado citizens Commit-
tee on Environmental Planning known as CECEP, and
chairman of the Colorado Chapter professional
Committee on Environmental Design.

I

My statement is purely personal and does
not represent an official position of the five
organizations, because they have not adopted a
position. However, it is consistent with their