BOARD00284

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

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Following is the Resolution of the Board of Directors of
the Southwestern Water Conservation Board of Colorado:

WHEREAS, there is pending in the United States District
Court for the District of Columbia a legal action entitled "Friends
of the Earth, et al, -vs- Ellis L. Armstrong, et aI," and

WHEREAS, this suit seeks to enjoin the Secretary of the
Interior from storing any additional water in Lake Powell, and

WHEREAS, this litigation presents a serious threat to
the future water development in the Upper Basin of the Colorado
River, and

WHEREAS, said suit, if successful, will effectively
destroy the economic and physical feasibility of the five (5)
Colorado Water Reclamation Projects authorized by the Colorado
River Basin Project Act, Public Law 90-537 as enacted ~y the United
States Congress on September 30, 1968, and

WHEREAS, in the judgment of the Southwestern Colorado
Water Conservation Board, this litigation presents one of the
greatest challenges in history to the continued water resource
development in Southwest Colorado, and

WHEREAS, the continued development and the eventual con-
struction of the water reclamation projects authorized by the
aforesaid acts of Congress are absolutely essential for the future
benefit of all citizens of Colorado, and

WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board must lead
the battle to preserve and protect our precious water resources, and

WHEREAS, effective opposition, both in the public arena
and the legal forum, will require adequate financing to enable the
COlorado Water Conservation Board to adequately present both to
the Court and the public the serious adverse effects of this liti-
gation to the people of the State of Colorado,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that a copy of this Reso-
lution be presented to 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 together with the strong recommendation
and urging of this Board of Directors that both the General Assembly