BOARD00064

• Board Meeting Date: 12/17/1956
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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RESOLUTION FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE
COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
at its .meeting in January, 1957

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WHEREAS, proper beneficial use of underground water in
Colorado constitutes a major problem for the people of Colo-
rado, the General Assembly of the State of Colorado and the
Cblorado Water Conservation Board, and

WHEREAS, several bills for the regulation of under-
ground water are being prepared for submission to the General
Assembly of Colorado at its coming session, and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board in
cooperation with the United States Geological Survey has made
extensive investigations as to ground water and ground water
use in Colorado, and

WHEREAS, the Colorado State College of Agricultural
and Mechanical Arts has made extensive investigations of under-
ground water for the last twenty-five years, and

WHEREAS, the Colorado State College of Agricultural
and Mechanical Arts is also cooperating with the Production
Economics Research Branch, Agriculture Research Service, United
States Department of Agriculture in an economic survey of ground
water problems at the present time, and

WHEREAS, seventeen western states have by statute pro-
vided for some measure of supervision of the use of underground
water rights, and

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WHEREAS, an urgent present need exists for the collation
and compilation of all available engineering, geological, legal
and economic information relative to the ground water problems
of the South Platte basin, the San Luis Valley basin and Arkansas
Valley basin, and

WHEREAS, ground water research will become important to
the North Platte basin and the Western Slope, and

WHEREAS, all available information will be needed by
the General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Governor of
Colorado, the Colorado Water Conservation Board and numerous
cities, municipalities, irrigation districts, conservancy dis-
tricts and mutual ditch companies as well as farmers in Colorado,
and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Watershed Association has been
recently organized to inventory needs and supplies of water in
Colorado including underground water resources,