BOARD00269

• Board Meeting Date: 7/25/1940
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

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was carried with Mr. Carpenter voting no.

Motion was declared duly passed.

Thereupon Mr. Bailey made a motion. seconded 1?Y Mr. Hinderlider.
that the committee heretofore designated to aot on the small dam matter
be enlarged to include Vena Pointer as additional member.

The motion was duly passed and approved and V_ Pointer designated
as the fifth member of the oommittee.

E. B. Debler. Chief Hydraulic Engineer of the Bureau of Reclamation.
appeared and was introduoed to the Board and made an explanation of
tentative allotments made to oarry on surveys and investigations during
the present fisoal year in the State of Colorado. Among other things he
stated that $600.000 had .been appropriated for this fisoal year by Congress
and that a carryover of funds available in the past year of $80.000 was at
hand making a total of $680.000, and that the Bureau had tentatively
allotted $55.000 to COlorado which is somewhat more than Colorado's pro-
rata share considering that there are seventeen states in .whioh this
money is to be spent. Colorado's pro rata share will be approximately
$40,000. He stated that the tentative allottment of this money for
the State of Colorado is as follows: $10.000 to Grand Mesa area.
$10.000 to the Colbran area. $5.000 to the Little Snake River BaSin.
$5,000 to the Upper Gunnison area. $5,000 to the proposed Dolores Projeot.
$15.000 to the Arkansas Valley and $5.000 to misoellaneous projeots.

Mr. Debler in response to a number of requests respeoting the
Dolores.Dove Creek projeot stated that. in his judgment expenditure of
$5.000 for the Dolores.Dove Creek investigation would put the Board and
those interested in that projeot in a position to determine whether or
not the projeot was a feasible one. Mr. Debler also disoussed proposed
development UIlder the Case.Wheelel' Aot. In answer ,to a further question
by Judge John B. O'Rourke oonoerning the Dolores.Dove Creek projeot
investigation. he stated the expenditure of $5,000 would be ample to
oonolude whether it was worth while going any further with the projeot.
Mr. Harry V. Pyle and others from Dolores.Dove Creek area who were present
urging suoh investigation oommented e.nd stated that the people in that
area would be satisfied with a.etiv:e work started on this investigation and
would oooperate in every way possible and felt that the statement of
Mr. Debler wa~ satisfaotory.

Meeting adjourned until 2:00 p. m.

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Meeting reoonvened at 2:15 p. m. Thursday. July 25, 1940.

After dis6ussion oonoerning the expenditure of money for surveys
and investigation in the Dolores.Dove Creek area by the Bureau of
Reolamation as explained by E. B. Debler. Chief Hydraulio Engineer of
the Bureau. it was moved by Mr. Carpenter and seoonded by Judge O'Rourke
that the Direotor be instruoted to send a letter to the Bureau of
Reolamation oalling attention to the faot that a $lO,OOOoontingent t'und
was provided for in the allottment made to the Colorado Water Conservation