BOARD00100

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

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one inch of space. To take care of that
usurpation of space, obviously if we put in
another 10,000 feet and could go no higher
than the conservation pool limit, when the
conservation pool came up to that point and
we had a 10,000 foot permanent pool in there,
the permanent pool would be occupying 10,000
feet which the conservation pool would other-
wise be occupying. So to take care of that
contingency; which has never occurred his-
torically, we have asked that the flood con-
trol pool, which is a pool of 278,000 acre-
feet, be invaded when necessary so that this
permanent pool could be raised up on top of
the conservation pool, so that no loss would
ever occur to the conservation pool.

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We were asked I I think at the last
meeting, if we could increase the capacity
for recreation and fish purposes, why
couldn't we increase it for irrigation pur-
poses? I can only say that historically if
there had been another 100,000 feet of space
in there for the conservation pool, it could
never have been utilized because never in
the history of this reservoir has the con-
servation pool been completely utilized.
The closest it came was in 1958 when it
reached approximately 360,000 feet in capa-
city. Actually we would never need to in-
vade historically the flood pool either for
this permanent pool,with the exception of
1958 when it would have gone slightly over
the maximum elevation now permitted by the
Corps of Engineers.

There's no mystery about operating a
reservoir. We do it every day. The State
Engineer has that problem day in and day
out. . But in this case we have greater tools
with which to work than almost any reservoir
in the State of Colorado. That is because
the reservoir is controlled by an interstate
compact commission and by the Corps of Engi-
neers which has a resident engineer who lives
at the reservoir site.

There has also been some fear that
siltation in John ~~rtin Reservoir would
interfere or gradually fill up this 10,000
acre-foot pool. Now again that's not true