BOARD00326

• Board Meeting Date: 1/19/1977
• Description: Agenda, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD MEETING MINUTES
Downtown Holiday Inn
Denver, Colorado

January 19, 1977

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The Colorado Water Conservation Board met, pursuant to notice, at
10:00 a.m" Benjamin F. Stapleton, Chairman, presiding.

MR. STAPLETON: I will call this regularly s~cheduled meeting of the
Colorado Water Conservation Board to order. . .

We'll go to the first agenda item which is consideration of appropriations
for lake levels and stream flows. You have your list in front of you.
I take from the material I have received that there will be some dis-
cussion on some of it and motions as to other parts of.the recommendation.

Mr. Sparks, will you start the discussion in regard to these recommended
final streamflow recommendations?

MR. SPARKS: First, Mr. Chairman, I'll get into what:we have labeled as
final. I think we should get into the preliminary after we've discussed
the final.

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Under our procedure, we've sent out: prior to the board meeting the
preliminary recommendations. They are considered for discussion purposes
only by the Board at the first meeting after the.recommendations are~
made. Then at a subsequent meeting, the Board will consider the final
action on those recgmmendations. So generally speaking, there is an
interval of at least three months from the time the preliminary recom-
mendations are made.until the final consideration by the Board.

On the final recommendations there are some .corrections to be made. As
you can see, we're dealing with. literally hundreds of these filings,
and the workload is enormous in making the investigations and then
reducing them to recommendations. Eventually each one is a separate
court case. It involves four agencies: our Board, the Division of
Wildlife, the Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation, and the Attorney
General's Office. ~

The Attorney General's Office plays a major part in this whole process.
I must say that we have been getting very excellent help from the
Attorney General's Office in preparing these cases for the court.

The first error I'd like to call to your attention is on the first page
near the top-where~it says."Lake Fork of the.Arkansas River; Upper
Point, Turquoise Lake; Lower Point, confluence with Willow~Creek," the
actual recommendation should be fifteen second feet instead of twelve.

On the Lake Fork of the Arkansas.River from its. confluence with Willow
Creek to the Arkansas River, which is the line just below that, that
should be twenty feet instead of fifteen. .

On Brush Creek from the confluence of East and West Brush Creeks to the