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“TRIBUTE TO W.D. ``BILL'' FARR” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E2176 on Nov. 14, 1995.
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TRIBUTE TO W.D. ``BILL'' FARR
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HON. WAYNE ALLARD
of colorado
in the house of representatives
Tuesday, November 14, 1995
Mr. ALLARD. Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me today in honoring Mr. W.D. ``Bill'' Farr for his 40 years of service on the board of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District [NCWCD]. Mr. Farr was a true pioneer in the development of water for Colorado's front range.
During the drought years of the 1930's, the importance of water to farmers, fishermen, and other users on the front range became all too clear. In response, a friend of Mr. Farr's established the Northern Colorado Water Users Association, which would later become the NCWCD. One of the association's first projects, with which Mr. Farr was intimately involved, was to push for the construction of the Colorado-
Big Thompson project [C-BT]. In 1954, the C-BT became fully operational and brought a supplemental supply of water from the western slope to seven northeast Colorado counties. Mr. Farr was certainly correct when he said that the ``C-BT is like a second Poudre River. Without it, we would not have the front range we see today.''
In 1955, Mr. Farr became a board member of the NCWCD. In the 1970's, Mr. Farr was instrumental in planning the C-BT's windy gap project and headed the municipal subdistrict of the NCWCD that built facilities below Granby Lake. As such, he is known as the father of the windy gap project.
Mr. Speaker, so that the House may fully appreciate W.D. Farr's unrivaled contribution to water development in Colorado, let me run through a brief chronology of his involvement with this issue: 1931--
became board director with the Town-Boyd Lateral Co. of Eaton; 1942--
named president of the board of the Sweet Jessup Canal of Carbondale; 1947--became board director of the Greeley-Loveland Irrigation Co.; 1955--became board director with the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District; 1970--named first chairman of the Municipal Subdistrict of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District; 1971--
became president of the National Cattlemen's Association; 1973--
appointed to the Water Pollution Control Advisory Board of the U.S. Department of the Interior by President Richard Nixon; 1974--named chairman of the Region 208 Areawide Planning Commission of the Larimer-
Weld Council of Governments; 1975--became first chairman of the Colorado Water Resources and Power Development Authority; 1975--became member of the Colorado Water Congress; 1985--named the Wayne Aspinall Water Leader of the Year by the Colorado Water Congress; 1994--
represented the Farr Family at the dedication of the Farr pumping plant at Granby reservoir. The plant is part of the Colorado-Big Thompson project.
Clearly, Mr. Speaker, W.D. Farr's service to the State of Colorado cannot be overstated, and I thank you for joining me in recognizing his 40 years of service with the NCWCD. As the Representative for the mostly rural and agricultural Fourth Congressional District of Colorado, I have a deep appreciation for the lifetime commitment W.D. Farr has made to ensuring that the front range has an adequate water supply year after year.
Thank you, W.D. Farr.
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