BOARD00284

• Board Meeting Date: 1/12/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. MAYNES:

MR. STAPLETON:

"I want to bring up a resolution of the
Board of Directors of the Southwestern Water
Con~ervation District ~hieh was aabpted at a
recent meeting they had on January 7, 1971,
Which touches on this problem. Rather than
read it. unless you want me to, I would like
to make it a part of the minutes of this meet-
ing.

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In effect, what it does is outline the
problem created by this litigation over Rain-
bow Bridge and the importance of that litigation
in terms of the five Colorado reclamation proj-
ects which were authorized by the Colorado
River Basin Project Act in 1968. The south-
western Board thinks this problem is of suf-
ficient concern to the State of Colorado, and
more particularly to our area inasmuch as there
are three of the five projects in the immediate
southwest area, that it is requesting that the
Governor of the State of Colorado, members of
the Senate Agriculture and Livestock committee
and the House Natural Resources Committee and
the Executive Committee of the Colorado Water
Congress be resolved to provide the Colorado
Water conservation Board sufficient funding
and support to insure that the State of Colorado
will meet this serious threat to its continued
water resource development. All these things
that Director Sparks has been talking about
are certainly going to cost a great deal of
money to combat both in the legal forum and
in the public arena.

The SOuthwestern Board at least is inter-
ested in making sure that the Governor and the
~embers of the state legislature and the Colo-
rado Water Congress do everything in their
power to support the State Water Board in meet-
ing what it considers to be a very serious
threat to the water projects in our area in
terms of water supply and econo~ic feasibility."

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"We'll file this resolution as part of the
minutes of this meeting."