BOARD00330

• Board Meeting Date: 3/27/1968
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. CRANDALL:

"Mr. Kroeger, there are economic factors
involved. We're below rated head at Lake
Powell. TO the extent that we hold water
back in other reservoirs, we lose there which
is a loss to the basin fund and interests of
all the Upper Basin states. That, I think,
is the more significant factor. Economically,
Navajo Reservoir at 5990, considering the
reservoir as a whole, creates a very fine
recreation opportunity, I think you would
agree. The portion of the reservoir area
between the State of New Mexico and the State
of Colorado of course favors New Mexico and
it's a physical factor and even putting a
lot of water in there isn't going to gain
you equal recreational opportunities in
Colorado.

I'd like to conclude on a constructive
note here. We would be most willing and
interested to work with the official bodies
of the state that are concerned with this
problem, the Game, Fish and Parks Department
and any other agencies that have a responsi-
bility and see if we can't develop a water
level and operating plan that is an optimum
one recognizing all of the needs and all of
the values involved. We haven't made an
arbitrary decision that it is going to be
this and nothing else. We will, as we do in
all our reservoirs, try to maximize multiple
purposes. We would want to do this though
with the official bodies that have responsi-
bility for this. We would hope that it could
be done in a compatible way."

MR. SPARKS:

"Dave, in that connection, when is it .
contemplated that there will be a require-
ment for full storage in Navajo?"

MR. CRANDALL:

"Just offhand, Larry, I would judge it
would be at the time when the diversions to
the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project would
have developed to a point of consequence."

MR. SPARKS:

"I realize that, but about what is the
time schedule on that?"