BOARD00100

• Board Meeting Date: 5/11/1960
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

is all it is - 900 acre~feet in a year in
an average - yearly average - to a maximum
of 30,000 acre-feet per year. Now this
reservoir, this Navajo Reservoir, that we
are helping, in affect, helping pay for by
the very fact that the power revenues that
otherwise would be coming to the State of
Colorado are going to pay for it before the
distribution of those funds is made, and by
the way, our share of those is 46% so in
affect we are paying for 461. of that dam,
the storage capacity of that reservoir is
Ij728,000 acre-feet, of which 700,000 acre-
feet is dead storage, leaving an active stor~
age capacity of 1,028,000 acre-feet of usable
water.

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Now the statement that Mr. Reynolds handed
out and upon which no one has any great dis-
agreement as to its affect, says that the span.
of the shortage is from 900 acre-feet to 30,000
acre-feet. The differential between those
figures and where the amoUnt would actually
fall is dependent Upon New Mexico's use -"the
place of use by New Mexico - of this water"
supply. If New Mexico uses water, including
a tremendously large industrial use - munici-
pal and industrial use - of 224,000 acre-feet
out of. Navajo Reservoir; if they use this
water supply at points where the return flow
will get back into the river, everyone says
there's no problem. However, if they, in
addition to the first phase of the San Juan-
Chama which, of course, as you probably know,
is a transmountain dive~sion to Albuquerque
f~om the upper reaches of the San Juan River,
if, in addition to that, a possible second
phase of the San Juan-Chama is constructed,
the return flow from that use of water will
not get back into the river and the amount of
demand to fill those downstream uses will be
the greater figure, perhaps the 30,000 figure.

Again we feel, back to this bill, that
this provision in subparagraph (a) that pro-
vides for what in arrect, at least to us, is
a sharing of shortage arxangement, we feel
that that will be very damaging to the Animas-
La Plata Project which is an 86,000 acre
development in La Plata County, Colorado, and
is very important to that area of Colorado.

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