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I contracts, required Board and staff consideration and eventual adoption of numerous policies, procedures, rules and regulations. Some are specifically dictated by provisions of the Conservancy District Act. Others relate to the pattern and timing under which ditch companies, municipalities, and other contract water allottees may order and receive deliveries of District water sup~ plies. As those supplies are released from project reservoirs to major delivery points on the Cache la Peudre, Big Thompson, Little Thompson, St. Vrain; Boulder Creek, and the South Platte Rivers, District regulations provide the required notification of and coordination with the State Engineer's admini- strative representatives on each of the streams. Such cooperative operations provide the means by which District agricultural allottees are served by 125 mutual ditch and reservoir companies. Similarly, the residents of 16 cities and towns and rural residents within the service area of 25 rural domestic water distributing agencies receive water delivery service under the same oper- ating rules. Accurate water measuring devices are required by Colorado law. The District, therefore, operates, maintains, and services the required measuring flumes and constant recorders at all points of water delivery. Periodic inspec- tions and ratings of those stations are made by the District and by the State Department of Water Resources. The Board of the District and its management are deaicated to the concept that adequate preventative maintenance of works is economically advanta- geous and, therefore, saves dollars for District water alIottees and taxpayers. The concept applies to nearly 100 miles of water conveyance canals with inter- spersed tunnels, chutes, and inverted siphons. At the location of the chutes and siphons, warning signs and other protective devices are maintained for the protection of those members of the public who are tempted to boat, swim, or float in the cold and potentially dangerous waters. Section of a well-maintained ca.nal with adjacent urban development Delivery of water from Hansen Supply Canal to the Cache la Poudre River The period since full project operation commenced in 1957 has been one of dynamic urban and industrial growth, particularly in that segment of the District along the Front Range of the Rockies. As the need and demand for supplementation of municipal, domestic, and industrial water increased, the District Board devised and adopted new administrative and contractual pro- cedures to accommodate the change of water allotments to the new and'in- creasing uses. Commencing in 1960, and continuing for nearly a decade, statutory wat~r districts and water user associations were formed to Construct water treatment and distribution systems. They now supply the domestic water demands of the rural agricultural areas lying between the various mun- icipalities. Some 25 such entities have become water contract allottees of the District by means of the allotment change procedures adopted by the Board. As the rural domestic systems grew, so, did the competition for transfer of agricultural allotments_ The new rural domestic distributors, the municipali- ties, and new industries bargained competitive~y to obtain water from the ag-