BOARD00188

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

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. KUIPER:

1-4R. PETERSON:

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. PETERSON:

MR. WHITTEN:

"Thank you, Mr. l'lhitten. Mr. Kuiper."

"I might say tha t I think now that thi s
appears to be acceptable at staff level. We
will reproduce the entire legislation and
have it to the Board in plenty of time for
them to study it before the next meeting and
we'll hope that we can take action on it at
our next meeting.

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I might point out that this must be
approved, as Jim says, by the respective state
legislatures and then submitted to Congress
for approval because this is the procedure
that was followed before.

I do think this will give us enough time
inasmuch as our next regular meeting should
be on the 9th of January, the week after the
Legislature convenes."

"Mr. Chairman."

"Mr. Peterson."

"I have one question. The amount of water
involved in this transmission, in this particu-
lar case, seems to be very small, only eight-
tenths cubic feet per second of water, but
I am asking this question - if there is a
possibility that this might set a dangerous
precedent where the State of Colorado may be,
in future cases with other states even, obli-
gated to the loss of transmission of water?"

"He don't feel, in reply to your question,
Mr. Peterson, that this does establish any
precedent or that it will, since this is under
a very particular and special case. This is
not prevalent in any other compact or any
other area that I know of. It is merely the
fact that in taking this water from one side
of the stream to the other they feel that the
amount of water left in the original mother
ditch would not be sufficient to carry it to
the other users who would remain. So it was
agreed and stipulated between the parties. It

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