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Since 1967. Jacksonville has become less and less a living community and more and more a modern day ghost town. Well, most of the people buried here in the city cemetery have been here over 120 years. They too must make the migration In one month perhaps to

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the living along with the dead must be moved from this town or face burial under 200 ft of water. We are aiming for a, what we call a transfer of storage from old Don Pedro Dam into the new dam, a new dam at

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the beginning of november. And from then on out, if we have a heavy rain storms during this coming winter, there's a good chance that the reservoir will be, oh, at least a quarter full by next year. What are the dimensions of this thing going to be?

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The reservoir will be a deep fingered reservoir containing two million acre feet of water that's acre foot is simply an acre foot water foot deeper over an acre and this is two million shorelines, shorelines, testing my memory. But I believe it's 100 and 59 miles is

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what I can, I can, but all I can say is that voters in the district that these people represent have more or less looks to me like they've elected a bunch of liars next time around. Yeah, mm hmm, wow.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mm hmm. We don't like it. We don't like the way we're being treated. We think it's a nasty deal. Like anybody would, that's in our position. They made us a lot of promises and they haven't kept, not

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one, for instance, before their license was issued by the Federal Power Commission, they promised to relocate the town of Jacksonville. All the people who wish to be relocated after they their license was obtained. They came back and said that they were sorry that they were unable

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to relocate this due to the fact that the cost was too great. As of now they have filed a combination suit against us because we refuse to accept their offer, Which is approximately 50 of the bids we have received from licensed contractors to replace just the

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structures. This does not include land sore or water. Well then what do you intend to do if anything or can you do anything at this point about it? We're gonna stay here just as long as we can and we're going to fight him to the last

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straw?