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<br />cl'\'....!" <br />-' '. ,- r; IJ <br /> <br />bN' <br /> <br />A STATEMENT OF POLICY <br /> <br />~Comm1ttee on Water Conservation and Development <br />of <br />The State Agrioultural Planning Oommittee, Oolorado <br />It shall be the POLIOY of this Bub-coIllIIlittee to eeek both to encourage and <br />assist at least all agrioultural counties within the state of Colorado in <br />setting up within the Oounty Agrioultural Planning Oommittees a sub-oom- <br />mittee on WAXER OONSERVAXION AND DEVELOPlIIEIIT and using this as a means of <br />getting both information and sources of information to the oitizens of the <br />areas of the State of Colorado, and <br />1. To seek to conserve to and within the state of Oolorado all of the waters <br /> <br />arising within the state whioh by compaot or otherwise has been allotted to <br />the state of Colorado, through whatever means now available and 11lD<f here-;. <br /> <br />atter be devised for that purpose, and <br />2. To seek new means of further development for the use of suoh WAXER in the <br />use of agrioulture, industries, and munioipalities to the end that all WAXER <br />now U1I:ALLOCAXED be put to benefioiai use, and <br />3. To initiate a cheoking program of all WA1ER USERS on all WAXER SHEDS to, <br />oheok their uses of WATER in cubic feet per second of time against their <br /> <br />deorees, both conditional and absolute, to determine it they are using more <br />WA1ER than for which they have filingS, and where more WATER is being used <br />than is filed upon to get the filings made for it, and if filings and deorees <br />are in excess of the capacity of the present ditoh or oanal, to get the oarxy- <br />ing oapaoity brought up to that of all deorees hsld, and <br /> <br />4. To oheck their present filings and decrees against tho uses to whioh the <br />water is put, as for inatance to be sure thai an irrigation deoree is made <br />safe for the use in livestook feeding during the non-irrigation season and <br /> <br />other non_irrigation uses. <br />