BOARD00330

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

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have invested, apparently, three-quarters of a
million dollars or more. I say 'they':
I think the Bureau was involved in this more
than the state, but it has been turned over
to the state now to operate.

They have a visitor's center of 340
acres which is double the size of the lake
at 5990. There is a museum there. they've
developed a 200,000 gallon water tower, a
large boat ramp has been built and the ramp
is now covered with silt and mud. A boat
cannot be launched from that site at the
present water elevation of about 5980. There
are comfort stations, picnic grounds and
trailer pads. There is a 3300 foot landing
strip and there are expansion plans for
motels and a restaurant and this type of
thing. The concessionaire at the marina
has indicated that unless the water level
can be brought up he wants to go back on
his contract because he just feels it is
totally impossible to operate. But last
year in spite of the rather serious low
water level at the state line, there were
some.7800 visitors to this area.

It would seem to me that the values
that might be placed recreation-wise
measured against the values of power revenue-
wise at Glen Canyon should certainly be care-
fully considered. I know that you can do a
tremendous service for the State of Colorado
if you would give this another look.

I might ask Larry if it would be proper
for the State Water Board to do some investi-
gating of its own on this and come up with
recommendations. Certainly that is an agency
that would be responsible. They would have
to correlate this, I know, with the Game,
Fish and Parks, and so on."

MR. CRANDALL:

"We have been aware of this problem, Fred,
and would be most receptive and anxious in
fact to sit down with the responsible interests