BOARD00188

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

MR. PETERSON:

l>1R. STAPLETON:

MR. GEISSINGER:

already on top of that and hope that we will
not have the same problem at Crystal that
is facing us now at Green l>1ountain."

"I had reference primarily to Green
Mountain."

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"\tIe'll now bring up some new business.
I'd like to have Jimmy Geissinger report on
the Costilla Creek Compact if he will, and
also Mr. i'lhitten. n

"Mr. Chairman, members, for the past
several years we have been working on a
problem in connection with Costilla Creek
diversions. I think perhaps by way of back-
ground, it would be well to mention the fact
that the Costilla Creek Compact, as it now
exists, is perhaps one of the most detailed
compacts we have. By that I mean it goes into
detail on the points of diversions for the
various ditches diverting from that stream and
there are no provisions in the compact itself
for amendments to the compact.

Mr. Moses, who is the attorney for the
Board, represents the Colorado water users
in this matter and he has gone into the Dis-
trict Court of Colorado to try to seek a change
of point of diversion on behalf of those water
users. Of course what we have here simply is
this, we have an interstate stream winding in
and out of the two states and we have this
compact superimposed upon the jurisdiction of
the courts of both Colorado and New Mexico and
the river is handled entirely, as far as its
administration, through the Compact Commis-
sioners, 11r. i1.hitten of Colorado and Mr.
Reynolds of New Mexico. For several years the
Compact Commission has been concerned with this
problem.

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\tlhat these amendments primarily do is
change the point of diversion from present place
of diversion to another ditch. New Mexico has
taken the position consistently that this is
a matter of substance. So the Commission, at