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<br />/ <br /> <br />'- <br />.,,. ". <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />10. Water became the attraction. A good clean supply was and is <br />a necessity. Many cities did acquire good surface supplies. <br /> <br />II. Many cities decided to use g~ound wate~ supplies available. <br /> <br />12. Seems to me fo~ a good numbe~ (1950-1966) of yea~s eve~ybody <br />done as they damn well pleased. Many later than that. <br /> <br />13. Lawye~s, court and the legislatu~e took the easy way out and <br />c~eated the system. <br /> <br />14. The theme was to use all the wate~ available <br />t~ansmountain diversions to maximum. <br /> <br />plus <br /> <br />15. Now I submit the land holde~, the farme~, put in pumps to get <br />an added supply of water to add to the ~iver dec~ees which the <br />canal companies held for its stockholde~s. <br /> <br />16. Eve~yone that could get a well he~e in the valley did exactly <br />that. <br /> <br />17. The passage of 1066 in 1966 by the legislatu~e was an attempt <br />to bring the use of g~ound water unde~ cont~ol. <br /> <br />18. The courts and the legislature seem bent on maximum use of the <br />great economic values of wate~. <br /> <br />19. The idea of the State of Colorado being involved in compact <br />with othe~ states has always lurked in the backg~ound. <br /> <br />20. <br /> <br />Colorado <br />Colorado <br />states. <br /> <br />has had <br />to meet <br /> <br />to cu~tai I t he use <br />the obligations of <br /> <br />of Colorado water in <br />Compacts with othe~ <br /> <br />21. In order to get equity he~e in Colorado in the Kansas suit, <br />the use of wells fo~ water supplies has to be the wells of the <br />Arkansas Basin not just the irrigation pumps f~om Pueblo to <br />the state line. <br /> <br />22. Colorado cannot abandon the Prio~ity System. <br /> <br />23. Under the Priority System wate~ can have a change of use if it <br />does not injure senio~ wate~ ~ights. <br /> <br />24. Now I know the use of water seems to get more complicated each <br />day. The~e a~e demands f~om all interests fo~ each one's <br />desires. <br /> <br />25. Seems as the do gooders have stopped wo~thwhile sto~ages of <br />wate~. Storage does c~eate p~oblems, yes, but p~obably not as <br />much as no sto~age and a strained water supply. <br /> <br />2 <br />