BOARD00188

• Board Meeting Date: 11/14/1962
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. MOULDER:

"All right, Ted."

"Mr. Chairman, members and guests, during
the last meeting Mr. Odell started to fill you
in on some of the federal activities that were
not partly financed by funds from the state.
I want to continue with just one more item
in this particular report and that is on the
hydrologic bench mark that we have at Valle-
cito Creek. This particular bench mark is
financed by federal funds and is being put in
for the purpose of measuring the variations in
hydrologic conditions in a natural environment
and we tried to select a place where there
had been very little activity by man so all
of the effects that are measured at this
particular station should be essentially
those of nature. This will be a reference
point for comparing information that we obtain
there with information in other areas where
man has been at work.

I

One other federal activity that we had
hoped to get was a study of costilla County.
This was declared a depressed area by the
President and in this particular area the
problem was that the stability of the irriga-
tion system was in question. Our purpose was
to determine how serious the problem was and
what could be done about it, chiefly to inves-
tigate whether there was ground water in
sufficient quantities to iron out the demand
and supply curves.

unfortunately, our project was proposed
along with a number of other projects. The
Area Redevelopment Administration had some-
thing like $3 million in funds and they had
$37 million worth of proposals. As a conse-
quence our chances of getting a Costilla
County project under way this fiscal year will
be pretty poor. We hope to continue working
on it and get that in the next fiscal year
program.

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During the month we released one report
on an open file status and a copy of it is