WSP10175

• File Number: 8141.200
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project - Mailing Lists and Correspondence
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1975
• Author: various
• Title: Fourteen Statements History of Fryingpan-Arkansas Project and Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Project Overview

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2. To form the Southeas.ern Colorado Water Conservancy District.

This is the District thot now exists, which has taxing power. I

basically always oi-'pose a formation of an entity that hod toxing

power, until I hod hoped the Project had first been approved and

authorized by Congress. This being impossible, and since you could

no longer raise volunteer funds adequate to do the jOb, we created

the iJistrict.

The Uistrict was erected in April of 1958, end in July of 1958

we learned that the Western Colorado River Water Conservotion

District had, without notice to us, obtained a decree from the

casalt Project which had a priority date ahead of the Fryingpan,

and if the decree stood it would defeat the Fryingpan Project and
bar it. It was at this time that Felix Sparks was appointed Dir-

ector of the Colorado Water Conservation Board. and I went over on

behalf of our District as one of its first acts. to File a Motion
I to reopen those decrees.
11/6/74

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In 1958 Felix ~parks was made director of the Colorado Water

Conservation board. Crawford having died, and Sparks from Delta.

o Democrat. had been a member of the Colorodo 'Supreme Court. and

I was active in pOlitics. and a friend of Aspinall's. This was very

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helpful in subsequent months because from July. 1958. clear through
1959. and until January. really. of 1960. we had a number of meetings.

in effect a revitalization of the old policy and review committee

that had ceased to function in 1951. and it wos in this interim

during 1959 thot we dropped Aspen Reservoir and we substituted Ruedi

Reservoir and the renegotiated operating principles took a common