BOARD02516

• Board Meeting Date: 11/12/1958
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. SPARKS:

"Gentlemen I think it has been obvious
to us.all and the Colorado Water Congress
has certainly pointed this up, that there
has not been a general understanding in the
State of Colorado as to what our problems
are. The Colorado Water Congress is filling
the large~t gap in that deficiency and I
trust will continue to do so. We will have
a report on that a little later from John
Barnard, Jr.

We constantly h~ve people coming in
the office, farmers, who first go to the
Denver Water Board, I don't know how they
get over there but they do, then they get
over to the State Engineer's office and
sometimes they win~ up in our office and
they have some project in mind and they
want to knew what can be done to get it
going. Now what we have been trying to do
I have been making a note of each one of
those projects - as fast as our engineering
personnel is available we will send out a
crew on each of these projects. They may be
harebrained schemes, I don't know, most of
them will probably turn out that way, but
certainly when people have an idea about the
conservation of water, I think it behooves this
Board to look into it, because actually these
farmers on the ground generally know more
about the situation to begin with than any-
one else.

This brings us down to - some of the
Board members will recall that a number of
years ago when Public Law 485 was in the
United States Congress, a concerted drive
was made by the Upper Basin states to conduct
lobbying activities and educational activities
of different sorts. A film was produced by
the Commission at that time which was shown
throughout the country. This was a movie
film and quite an exceptional film. A
large amount of money was raised through
subscription and an organization known as
the 'Aqualantes' was formed. They got into

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