BOARD00261

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

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because he couldn't conceive of the delivery
of that water to Utah without a reservoi~
and without storage to implement it.

So that's some of the ancient history
with respect to this matter.

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We have a threat now - first, I want to
say that, I believe it was in 1956, (I
couldn't find my file this morning, I wanted
to bring my file along but I couldn't find
it), this Board, as is usual when submitting
priorities of projects to the Bureau, submit-
ted a resolution, by unanimous vote of this
Board, to the Reclamation Bureau. Ted
McCandless, one of your ablest, I'd say,
members of this Board made the motion and
this was discussed and Dave Miller, I remember,
made an amendment - offered an amendment -
in regard to the utah part of the water of
the Yampa River. Anyway, the Juniper was
given the priority by this Board to the Recla-
mation Bureau. I think that's a very important
matter for this Board to consider, because if
you are going to give Juniper a less than #1
priority, which the Board gave it then,: it
would seem to me that you would have to change
the action of the Board that was taken back
in 1956.

There is a new threat to the water of the
Yampa River. I clipped this from the Steam-
boat pilot, their last issue, and it says:

'Elliott Unceasing in Efforts to Obtain
Yampa Drainage.

John Elliott, Denver engineer and pro-
moter, is in Washington this week to push his
plans to divert water from the Yampa River
to northeastern Colorado. Elliott visited
each member of the Colorado Congressional
delegation to explain his plan of complicated
exchanges of water in Yampa, North Park, and
Colorado River areas to take 55,000 acre-feet
of water to the eastern slope.

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