BOARD00277

• Board Meeting Date: 9/11/1970
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

a potential participating project.

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As a result then, the Yellow Jacket Water
Conservancy District was formed. They organized
under the state laws in accordance with the
policy set by the Colorado Water Conservation
Board to establish conservancy districts for
the support and development of the projects
that the local people wanted. The Yellow
Jacket District and the Colorado River water
Conservation District contacted the Bureau of
Reclamation and requested that we initiate
detailed feasibility investigations on the
project. We started these detailed studies in
1961 and came up with what we thought was a
better plan than the old reconnaissance plan.

When we started these investigations we
started our cooperative planning and negotia-
tions with the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and
Wildlife, the Forest Service, Bureau of Out-
door Recreation and the State Game, Fish and
Parks Commission. As a result of this coop-
erative planning they recommended that we not
enlarge Trappers Lake. Trappers Lake is a
famous native water for native cut throat
trout spawning. It is also right on the edge
of the wilderness area. We were all in agree-
ment that it would not be good to enlarge
Trappers Lake because of the value of it the
way it is today.

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The next recommendation that was made at
that time was the water that would be bypassed
at the Yellow Jacket canal diversion, down here
on the North Fork of the White River right
about Buford. They recommended that we maintain
minimum flows of 70 cfs in the stream below the
diversion dam during the summer and 30 cfs in
the winter or the natural streamflow, whichever
was less. We started on that basis: then as
we got farther along in the planning those
minimum flows were increased and we gave
further consideration to those.