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.. .- ^. '. ., . . 0273 L,rt....,.. Statement of The Colorado River Water Conservation DistricJ ... ---- pertaining to a demand by the City and-County-orDenver that water impounded in Green Mountain Reservoir be available for release to meet replacement requirements for Fraser, Williams and Blue River diversions by that City. Submitted to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States at Washington, D. C. , November 18, 1959. It appears to be necessarr that the position of The Colorado River Water Conservation District on the subject of the demand by the City Bnd County of Denver that water be released from Green Mountain Reservoir to meet replacement requirements for the City's present diversions from the Fraser and Williams Rivers, be made clear and that it be re- duced to written form. There can then be no question as to the District's policy, and no reasonable possibility that that policy will be either mis- construed or misrepresented by Denver at a later date. Some of us who are here today attended and actively participated in the conferences and conversations which resulted in the formulation and signature of what we know as the Blue River Stipulation, in Con- solidated Civil Actions 2782, 5016 and 5017 in the United States Dis- trict Court for the District of Colorado. The Stipulation was signed on October 5, 1955, by all of the parties to those actions, all of whom are represented here; and it was approved by the Court on October 12, 1955. It should be noted that the Stipulation was later approved by the Congress of the United States in Public Law 485, the Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects Act, and, by reference, incorporated into that legislation. In early 1956, after the signing and approval of the Stipulation, a conference was held at the Denver Federal Center, which was attend- ed by representatives of the Secretary of the Interior, and also by re- presentatives of the parties in interest who are here present. In no single one of these conferences or conversations, or in the proceedings of the Federal District Court at which the Stipulation was approved, was it ever stated or intimated by the City and County of Denver that the demand we are here considering was ever in con- templation by that City. The fact that such demand is now made re- quires a searching analysis and appraisal of Denver's present water