BOARD00231

• Board Meeting Date: 11/8/1961
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. DAVIS:

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. KUIPER:

Cache la Poudre. Now, if we are going to do a
basin-wide job it is still strongly my feeling
that I hope this study period can be extended.
Certainly we are in an area that's been irrigated
here for 100 years. Another year or so of study
and a few hundred thousand dollars at this point
might be worth a great deal to us. After all,
this area along the east front of the Rocky
Mountains is expanding population-wise, industry-
wise and water competition-wise to a point where
I think we cannot afford to overlook the oppor-
tunity of making a complete basin-wide study out
of this if at all possible. I merely bring that
to the attention of this Board."

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"Any further discussion on the report of
Region 7? Mr. Davis has something further to
say. II

"I'll be very brief. I want to assure you
that our hydrology studies are going to be very
comprehensive but we can't go all the way up
every tributary. We are going to record out-
flow from all of the tributaries as related to
those upstream needs to see what water comes
down. We've got a tremendous, complicated thing.
We must cut through it in the best way we can.
We're not going to be short-sighted. We're
going to consider wells, the effects of pumping,
and we're going to do a comprehensive job in
the hopes that we'll get the answers that every-
body needs."

"Thank you, J!.1r. Davis. We'll now move on
to the Report of Region 4. Who is there from
Region 4 here? Nobody? Then would you make
that report, please Kuip?"

"This report is from Frank Clinton, Regional
Director of Region 4:

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'Another construction season draws to a
close with marked progress recorded. Two parti-
cipating projects--the paonia Project and the
Vernal unit--are essentially completed, and
long-awaited deliveries of supplemental water
will begin next spring. Excellent progress has