BOARD00188

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

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we will attempt to establish the criteria
for the releases of water under which the
studies will be made. It was pointed out, and
rightly so, that very possibly this problem
may result - that we want to come up with some
operating criteria at Green Mountain which may
solve the diurnal fluctuation problem, it may
solve only the seasonal fluctuation problem,
and I think it is entirely possible that a
change in operation at Green Mountain, to-
gether with some afterbay storage. That may
be the solution that we come up with.

We do want to, and I think we must, study
all the aspects of this. I don't think we
can study simply the protection of the down-
stream water users but that we must go into
the complete operation of the thing as it
effects the future of downstream development,
whatever it may be. To that end we will con-
tinue with this and continue the exploration
of this problem to come out with some kind of
an answer which will make the entire Col"orado
River downstream from Green Mountain whole,
both as to future uses and as to existing uses."

MR. PETERSON:

"Mr. Kuiper, I hope that within your
negotiations on the Green Mountain problem
that you will take into consideration the fact
that it seems that most of these hydro plants
are becoming more peaking plants all the time
which will, in the future, probably effect the
stream flow down below the dams even more than
it has in the past. As they become higher
peakers they will naturally fluctuate the
stream a great deal more and I hope you will
take that into consideration in your negotia-
tions."

MR. KUIPER:

"This, I might say, is the entire problem
at Green Mountain, Pete. It is a peaking
plant; it has been used in the past as a peak-
ing plant and that is What is causing the
trouble.

As to the other things, I presume you are
referring to the Crystal site and we are