South Platte Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

• Description: South Platte Steering Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 10/6/1961
• Author: South Platte Steering Committee
• Title: South Platte Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Minutes

Supreme Court decree which came down only last
week and which has been haunting us ever since
the case was entered, how much water is going to
be brought over, under that finding of the court
and put into the river; and how is that going to
effect our reservoirs. Then we come down to the
St. Vrain. Who, if anyone, is going to build a
reservoir on the St. Vrain? Is the Corps of
Engineers going to do the flood protection
studies which have been asked for the same number
of years, probably, that the Narrows has been
asked for and what effect are they going to have
on the contributions from the St. Vrain, the
Little Thompson, the Big Thompson, the Cache la
Poudre (we are studying a project in the Cache
la Poudre), what are we going to come up with?
We can't tell you now; we don't know. We're
studying a project there. If we come up with
a feasible project, the next question is, will
it be authorized by the Congress and built? And
if it is authorized and built, what effect does
it have on the stream? These are all things
above the two sites in question.
Now if you are going to have to - and
I'm not trying to be facetious, I'm just trying
to state the things that come up in here, just
the things so you can understand the problems we
are up against - get-�all those things settled in
their infinite degree, you'll finally build a
reservoir somewhere. There I might be facetious
saying that you might build anything. But you
could finally build a reservoir somewhere that
would be precisely and exactly what you needed.
Those are the things you get into. So when I
say the Bureau would like guidance and instruc-
tion, I mean that and you can see why we mean it,
because of all these things. We can spend hun-
dreds and thousands of dollars and not produce
anything that anybody likes. And everyone of
these alternates that we come up with, take the
Cache la Poudre, we've already got arguments
with people up there. Should a reservoir there
be located here or here? All of those alternates
have to be settled before we settle the Cache la
Poudre question and .how much water it's going to
contribute down to the Narrows site.
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