PUB00026

• Year: 1968
• Title: Water Conservation Agencies of The State of Colorado
• CWCB Section: Water Conservation & Drought Planning
• Author: CWCB
• Description: Applicable State statutes and summary information about each water conservation district in the State of Colorado
• Publications - Doc Type: Historical

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as well as to furnish a supplemental supply of water for lands
now under irrigation, is of vital importance to the growth
and development of the entire district and the welfare of all
its inhabitants and that to promote the health and general
welfare of the state of Colorado an appropriate agency for
the conservation, use and development of the water resources
of the Colorado river and its principal tributaries should be
established and given such pow~rs as may be necessary to safe-
guard for Colorado, all waters to which the state of Colorado
is equitably entitled under the Colorado river compact. (1937).

150-7-2. District bOdy corporate - area. - That there is
hereby created a water conservation district to be known and
designated as "The Colorado River Water Conservation Dis':'
trict." Such district is hereby declared to be a body cor-
porate under the laws of Colorado. Said district shall
comprise the following area and territory of the state of
Colorado: Grand county, Routt county, Moffat county, Rio
Blanco county, Ouray county, Mesa county, Garfield county,
Pitkin county, Eagle county, Delta county, Gunnison county,
Summit county, those parts of Hinsdale and Saguache counties
lying west and north of the continental divide and being with-
in the drainage basin of the Gunnison river, and that part of
Montrose county not included in the Southwestern water con-
servation district as set forth and described in section
150-8-2. (1961) .

150-7-3. Board of directors. - (1) The Colorado river
water conservation district shall be managed and controlled by
a board of fifteen directors. One of said directors shall be
from each of the respective counties in said district. He
shall be selected by the board of county commissioners of the
county in which he resides. He.may be a member of the board
of county commissioners of such county. He shall have been a
resident of such county, or if only a part of a county is in-
cluded within the boundaries of the said district, then a
resident of such included part, for a period of at least two
years prior to the date of his appointment and shall be a
freeholder who has paid taxes in the county of his residence
during the calendar year next preceding his appointment. The
members of said board shall hold office for a term of three
years and until their successors are appointed and qualified,
except as herein otherwise provided. The regular term of
office of each director shall commence on the third Tuesday of
January following his appointment. The board of county com-
missioners of the county in which a director, whose term of
office is about to expire, resides, shall, at its first