BOARD00261

• Board Meeting Date: 5/13/1964
• Description: Table of Contents, Agenda, Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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cost ratios. There is difference of opinion
on taking benefit-cost ratios too literally
in making decisions on projects. There is
difference of opinion as to whether or not
the Bureau was too rigid in some methods of
determining the ratios, such a matter as
successful use of sprinkler systems on sloping
fields was not always given full weight, in
the opinion of some persons versed in water
matters.

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The five Colorado irrigation projects
authorized directly were not included because
definite plan reports either have been fin-
ished or will be within a few years.

Adoption of this list would result in
some changes in plans of the Bureau for study
of projects.

Decisions on value of a project cannot
be made purely on the basis of benefit-cost
ratios. They must be considered, but the need
for some projects and the interest in them
should also be considered. A project with a
low ratio might actually benefit one area
more than another with a higher ratio might
help some other area.

The Southwestern Water Conservation
Board did not prepare a list because only
four projects in that area are involved, and
feasibility studies are now in progress on
two projects. Projects in the southwestern
part of the state are in the same position
in the lists as they would have been had the
Board taken formal action on setting up a
list. .

That was signed by Mr. Nelson.

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Here is the priority list for study of
western Colorado reclamation projects:

'~unnison River - Fruitland Mesa 1; Bost-
wick Park 2; Dallas Creek 3; Tomichi Creek 4;