BOARD00073

• Board Meeting Date: 9/16/1949
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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meadowland water users, the Director explained, had numerous,. conferences with
Wyoming water users and are now urging that State9fficials undertake~ ,the modifica-
tion of the~upreme'Court decree for the pUrposes-ahoye-mentioned;' Heretofore.the
Colorado Water Conservation Board has authorized the Director, the At~orney.for the
Board, in collaboration with the Attorney General; to undertake conferences with
Wyoming officia;ts. ,!,he Director stated,h.oweyer, that due to the, serious and con-
tinued illness bf. L.'C.'Bishop, Wyoming .~Jtate l!:ngJ:neer, , it had been impossible to
arrange these conferences; and he said that as soon as Mr. Bishop was in a position
to proceed, such conferences would be initiat~d.

Glendo Situation. The Director and Jean Breitenstein reviewed the
situation precipitat~d by the p:uoposed Glendo Reservoir on the North flatte River.
This matter had been under discussion by the Board at preYious meetings. They ex-
plained th~t Congress had restricted any apPropriation for the Glendo,Project to
such monies as were necessary for further investigations; that after the completion
of such investigations, an effort would be made by the States of Colorado, Nebraska,
and Wyoming to 'agree upon a project plan of construction and operation for the
Olendo Res~rvoir. The Director and Mr. Breitenstein recommended, howeyer, that a
conference should be held to give consideration as to whether Colorado should seek
to secure a modification of the United States Supreme Court on the Normh Platte
river. The court, it was explained, had retained jurisdiction for the purpose of
considering whether stream flow records subsequent to the entry of the decree would
justify a modification of the restrictions imposed on Colorado and Wyoming'by the
decree.

The Board discussed at considerable length the situation on the North
Platte riyer and the conditions which had been p.recipitated by the proposed Glendo
Reservoir.

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It was moved by Mr. Cross and seconded by Ill'. Williams
that 'the ~olorado Water Conservation Board reaffirm its desire
to secure a modification of the North Platte decree and that
the prol'ier Col-orado .officials proceed-toconfer vlith officials
of the other interested States, as set fQrth in the resolution
of the: BOard, adapted at its April meeting. ' '

On yote being taken, the motion preyailed and was
declared unanimously passed.

Further discussion ensued with respect to the pending adjudication
proceedings in the District Court at Breckenridge, Colorado, and the suit filed by
the United Stat~s in the Federal District Court at Denver, COlorado, affecting
water.rights'for.the Green Mountain.Reservoir, a feature of the Colorado~Big
Thompson Project. i"fithout any formal action, it was the unanimous opinion of the
Board that its position, as set forth in a resolution adopted at the Board meeting
in April, adequately stated the interest of the State of Colorado in these proceed-
ings and that no further Board action should be taken at this time.

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