WSP04644

• File Number: 8430.300
• Description: Water User Groups and Conservancy Districts - Lower South Platte River Water Conservancy District
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 1/11/1967
• Author: Various
• Title: News Articles-Press Releases - 1967-1968
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: News Article/Press Release

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Field Hearings on Narrows Unit

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Fort Morgan, November 21

Congressman Harold T. Johnson, of

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California, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Irrigation and

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Morgan on Saturday morning in time to attend a Chamber of Commerce

luncheon at the Country Club. Saturday evening the Congressional

group be guests of honor at a Country Club dinner hosted by the

Board of Directors of the Lower South Platte Water Conservancy
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District. Purpose of the committee membrs1trip to the area is.

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to conduct a public hearing on Monday, November 25, on the pro-

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posed Narrows Unit on the South Platte River above Fort Morgan.

Besides Chairman Johnson, the Congressmen to visit Fort Morgan

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include: Wayne N. A~pinall, of the 4th Colorado District, who is

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chairman of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee;

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Richard White, of Texas; James A. McClure, of Idaho; and Morris

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K. Udall, of Arizona. The group will be accompanied by Sidney L.

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McFarland, staff Director for Mr. Aspinall's Interior Committee.

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On Sunday afternoon the members of the hearing committee will

inspect the site of the proposed dam and reservoir and the project