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<br />.r ..1"-:0: 4 <br />J. ":lI t - <br /> <br />II <br /> <br />promoted the project at great length Here <br />. 22 <br />La Junta and Damian Ducy of Pueblo. <br /> <br />Marc WilliBm~on of <br /> <br />This inter'lst in transmountF.\in diversion WitS sprewlinc-: <br /> <br />veI"J quickly, i.n fll.CG tho campllic;n of ,r. "d,,:,~.r Cbenoweth for <br /> <br />Representative of the Third Congressional District in 19l~O <br />23 <br />stressed tno need for transmountain rJi ver:o:ioll. <br /> <br />The concern for this transmoLlntuin (lj.ver.sion ',.JUS ~() <br /> <br />great in fact that the executive cOITllnittec of the Artum;fl.s Vn.L- <br /> <br />ItlY Ditch Association folt 8 special trn.nsmoc1nt:o.in C:O~ll'littoc was <br /> <br />needed to represent the people who ...Iere contactinG the Colorado <br /> <br />:{ater Conservation Boerd and the ;,urenu of 2eclal".'ltion. 7hi~. <br /> <br />col11Illittee tnen held a meeting in 1.0. Junta, on Dcce:;oer ~), 191-13, <br /> <br />to discuss the advisability of orc;anizing a :,roup OL citizens <br /> <br />throughout the Valley who would cooperate in the proGram lonrlinc; <br /> <br />to tho solution of the Arkansas val.Ley water pro~le~. As a rc- <br /> <br />suIt of tnis lneetin~ on December 1"r, 19113, the ;o/ater 'USf;rs Ai;SO- <br /> <br />clation of Southeas';;ern Colorado ,.as <br />Frank Johnson of Ropky Ford elected <br /> <br />officially orCRnized, with <br />24 <br />as the first presinent. <br /> <br />Surveys ;>nd investigations continued on the water <br /> <br />problems of the Arkansas Val-ley. Most of the work in thi s u.r8R <br /> <br />..as done by the i3urcDu 01' i'lcclamllti.O!l unuor tlH) rlir(~ctJ.or. of <br />25 <br />area enc;ineer Ben Powell. Another survey wus cor.(lucted by <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />~:ay 9, <br /> <br />22 <br />Interview with J. Edc;ar Chenoweth, Pucb.Lo, ColorR'Jo <br />1973, p. 16. <br />23 <br />Ibid., p. 15. <br />24 <br />Christ;;, p. 43. <br />25 <br />Ibid., p. 4j. <br />