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'OOZ571 Walter Holyfield. Friends of CayOle Rats, cited a friend who said thai in the East people take water for granted -in the West. they take it from each other. He said the public interest is not the role of the majorilY. bul taking the long view: if we do not have a strong clean environment. then we are goners. -All we ask, ~ he said. ~is that you leave wonderful. magical. spirirual COYOle Rats alone. ~ Representative Wilkinson inlerjeaed thai it is JUSt plain land and that this was not a big spiritual issue. ROJle Dunn. a professional engineer representing Trout Unlimited, testified that the dam was necessary to provide waler for the lrOUL He said most blue ribbon water associated with trout in the West is associated with dams. When the hearing rcswned the next day, Jane Worker of the AFL-C10 compared the conditions of building a dam to Ihose of building the Alaska pipeline. citing the heavy work schedule and frequent separation of families. since the workers must Slay in camps at the work site. She raised the question of ftmding for services to alleviate these stresses. Social worker Rill Goodfello,,' said lhat his job would become harder if Coyote Aats were built. When the projen is completed, he pointed out, lhe problems of the workers will remain. Goodfellow recommended S4OO,OOO for additional social workers. child care, and doctors. Friends of Red Canyon representative Jert'miah Gt'Ophilus began his testimony by pointing out that his name means ~lover of lhe earth.~ He delineated lhe ~ecosystem devastar.ion~ caused by the Red Canyon Reservoir, located elsewhere in the state. and warned that similar damage would resull from the Coyote Aats project. ......... S(JJ'ah WUlMnuocca. lrji, lNaia with audi~N:~ lor tta!lNil""'s:J. Marc Trail of the Forest Service gave a dry recitation of various laws applicable to the building of dams and presented the Forest Services as being a good scientific manager of timber. ~Good silvaculture imitates nature but simply on a different time schedule.~ said the ranger. Rep. Wilkinson asked his advice on the project, pointing Out that it was under the jurisdiction of lhe Bureau of Reclamation. so the Forest Service was not involved in the planning and Trail could objectively commenL Trail ttiterated that the Forest Service promotes scientific practices and added that its staff viewed environmemalists as biologists view creationists. , j ;... Farmer Ricardo Rernuda supported the dam because he felt it would keep the City of Russell from pursuing Rio Viejo waler rights. He testified that the Rio Viejo farms downstream 17 of the project site and the 300-year-old Rio Viejo community would be destroyed if they did not have water from the dam. He said developers were offering to buy WlllCT rights and officials had threatened to raise taxes if fanTlCT5 didn't sell. Some had held out. Rcmuda ttponed, but it was a water quality problem: if some sold their rights. it decreased the quality of water remaining. He asked if we could really put a price on the living standards of the people. Final testimony came from rancher Sharon Weatherby, owner of the site of the proposed dam and ttservou-. She promised to make it difficult to take her land. When asked how she found out that her land was the site of the not-yet-aUlhoriz.ed dam. she said by reading the newspaper - she had not been conucted by any of the planners. A member of the audience asked if any surveyors or geologists had been to her property, or the water tested for chemical content She said no. but Rep. Wilkinson countered the questioner's accusation that the project plan was not based on scientific daLa collected from the site saying lhat there were feasibility studies. but not entry on Weatherby's land. 1lle hearing was then opened to questions from the audience. somc of whom portrayed members of the public who might appear at an authcntic congressional hearing on a proposed water projcct. A professor from the neighboring state of Jcfferson said he found a misplaced decimal point in the studies of the Coyote Aats project: evaporation was listed to be 1.5% of the flow of thc river and should have been listed at 15% of the now. This would almost completely eliminate any gain in nct water yield from the dam. Representative Wilkinson said he would look into it Senator limerick expressed her annoyance at 60s-style outside agiLatoT5. A resident of Russell urged the implemenLation of a serious water conservation project, listing such measures as metering. regulating lawn watering. and using tertiary treatment plants. The biggest problem. she said. is ow own State of mind. The chautauqua scholars commented on the proceedings and on how their characters would have responded to such a hearing. Frederick Krebs, who portrayed Mulholland. said that the engineer spoke for many people then and now with his belief in the power of lechnology and progress, Krebs said that it comes do'Wtl to the question of defming progress. He said that Mulholland pointed out to us the importance of scientists and engineers having a clear understanding of socicty's sense of values and philosophy behind the project. The Iroquois, Krebs stated, believed that policy should be made with respect to seven generations into the future-owe art more here and now. Philip Supina. who portrayed John Muir. said that the Jeremiah figure, the Francis of Assisi comes through in Muir's outlook. and that in our heart or hc.ans we like Itim, or at least recognize the need for people like him. Benay Blend. still in her character as Mary Hallock Foote, pointed out that when we try to tnmsform the arid landscape