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<br />1236 <br /> <br />The report is quite comprehensive insofar <br />as covering the entire Slope is concerned. It <br />is not very comprehensive when it comes to parti- <br />cular areas. We can see the end of Western Slope <br />water in sight at the present time - the water I <br />of the Colorado River - and it appears that in <br />the not too distant future some competition will <br />develop in western Colorado among the particular <br />areas when you consider that we have commitments <br />to make down stream. We have not been able to <br />intelligently plan the many reclamation projects, <br />th~ priorities of those projects in western <br />Colorado at the present time. We have not been <br />able to make intelligent analyses of the water <br />that may be available there or for transmountain <br />diversions, and those problems are going to con- <br />tinue to haunt us in the future. <br /> <br />Now the Colorado River Water Conservation <br />District has requested that those surveys be re- <br />instituted and that we take another look at the <br />Western Slope water supplies. <br /> <br />I think the Hill report furnishes us with a <br />fairly basic prefix upon which to work and I, at <br />this time, don't think we should attempt to get <br />into any Western Slope surveys on the whole Slope <br />as such. In trying to work this thing out with <br />the various people who are interested, who have <br />some knowledge. of the Western Slope problems, it <br />appears that the best way would be to start out <br />on a pilot basis taking the Hill report and then <br />analyzing it with reference to a particular area <br />of the Western Slope. If we can come up with the <br />proper pilot survey in some area, then' we can con- <br />tinue a Slope study. The problem so far is that <br />no one has been able to agree on what analyses <br />should really be made. In other words, how far <br />do youproj ect water uses into the future? What <br />subsidies are you going to place upon agricultural <br />lands, and so on? The only way I know to work <br />that out is to start with a relatively small area, <br />make a survey and then present it to all people I <br />. who are. interested for their comments. If we <br />can establish a criteria in that manner, we will <br />apply it then throughout the rest of the Western <br />Slope. . <br />