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164 <br />• 1 <br />2 <br />~~ 3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />i, S <br />9 <br />10 <br />~' 11 <br />', 12 <br />• 13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />• 24 <br />25 <br />hazardous waste that the company had promised to the <br />community. <br />So I am very excited to come here to <br />the San Luis Valley because we have an oppcertunity <br />to prevent the kinds of disasters that I see every <br />day in my work and some of the most wrenching, <br />difficult emotional problems and economic <br />development crises that you can imagine. <br />And what i would like to do for the <br />Board, as well as for the public, is just to give <br />you some perspective in Colorado and to remind you <br />of what we have at stake here and also looking at <br />some of the abilities of the State agencies to <br />adequately handle the scale of the crisis that we <br />have in Colorado, particularly as it relates to <br />drinking water. <br />In the Denver area we have now lost <br />(substantial amounts of water as a result of the <br />(poisoning of water from some of our major employers <br />lin the area. <br />we uncovered a scandal from 1984 to <br />the present time of Martin Marietta Aerospace <br />actually dumping toxic chemicals and rocket fuels <br />straight into a municipal water system that was <br />feeding about one-fifth of the City of Denver, and <br />