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<br />5 <br /> <br /> <br />Bureau's investigation program must await the findings of the <br /> <br /> <br />ground water studies, and in the absence of well-defined local <br /> <br /> <br />interest to guide the selection of one of several alternative <br /> <br /> <br />uses of water, it was deemed advisable to defer further detailed <br /> <br /> <br />studies by the Bureau. <br /> <br /> <br />At a conference in June 1959 between representatives of <br /> <br /> <br />the Bureau of Reclamation and the Kansas Water Resources Board, <br /> <br /> <br />the status of the Granada investigations was thoroughly discussed. <br /> <br /> <br />The consensus of the meeting was that the Granada Project, as <br /> <br /> <br />originally conceived, is infeasible and that the investigation <br /> <br /> <br />be discontinued. In the future, consideration should be given <br /> <br /> <br />to the utilization of the available water supply in other areas <br /> <br /> <br />when the ground water studies of the State and Geological Survey <br /> <br /> <br />have been completed, the Corps of Engineers investigation of the <br />Syracuse Reservoir has been resumed, and definite local interest <br />and support have developed. It was also agreed that the Bureau <br />should make an inventory of the water resources of the Arkansas <br />Basin above Ellinwood in Kansas and the physical possibilities <br />for the utilization of these resources. No appraisal of the <br />financial or economic feasibility of the possible development <br />was to be undertaken. <br />