Glendo Project Correspondences 1950-1953

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ASSOCIATES JAMES D.GEISSINGER BEN L. WRIGHT, JR. JEAN S. BREITENSTEIN ATTORNEY AT LAW 718 SYMES BUILDING DENVER,COLORADO May 26, 1951 Hon. Clifford H. Stone, Director Colorado Water Conservation Board 212 State Office Building Denver, Colorado Re: North Platte Dear Judge Stone: COL( � v l le I have received the report on the Glendo Project and a copy of Mr. Bailey's letter of May 21 to Mr. Gilder- sleeve. As you know, I have been concerned for sometime over the problem as to whether or not Colorado will be placed in a disadvantageous position if it lends any support to the Glendo Project. You are familiar with the terms of the North Platte decree which permits the reopening of the case on any change of conditions and on the construction of any major downstream project. Since the entry of the North Platte decree there has been a change of conditions. That decree was entered upon the basis that there was no water supply for the Kendrick Project and it now appears that there are very substantial quantities of water in storage in the Seminoe and Alcova reservoirs to the credit of that project. Also the Glendo Project is most assuredly a major downstream development. I have always felt that the restrictions placed on Colorado in the North Platte decree, while generous in the definition of the Colorado rights, were unnecessary and were not justified by the evidence in that case. I recognize that there is one substantial argument against any action on the part of Colorado in trying to reopen the North Platte case. Such argument is based upon the fact that since the entry of the decree the extent of the Colorado irrigated acreage, the quantity of water stored in North Platte reservoirs, and the quantity of exportations from the basin have not reached the maximum limits fixed for Colorado by the decree. However, it can be said that but for such limitations new developments