BOARD00330

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

1. Fulfill as many water rights as
possible according to their order of priority
using only surface water.

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2. Fulfill as many water rights as
possible according to their priority using
both surface and ground water.

3.
rights,
acreage.

Distribute, irrespective of water
the most water to the irrigable

4. Distribute enough water to satisfy
crop demands giving preference to the most
productive land and without regard to water
rights. We would give class one lands, for
example, priority over class two.

Actually, the second item, the one where
conjunctive use of water, in other words,
ground water and surface water used conjunc-
tively, would be the one that would be of
the greatest interest to the group here. I
think it would also be of interest to show
these other aspects to determine whether or
not there is likely to be substantial im-
provement by some other management scheme.

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At the moment our program on this is
to design a simple model that shows what
would happen between two points of diversion
due to conjunctive use of ground and surface
water. With or without the digital model we
could make these simple kinds of calculations
and be able then, if we had a pilot project
where water management plans were being con-
ducted, to test these to predict the outcome
and hopefully improve the distribution of
water throughout the system.

Our intent in this particular method is
to make it applicable both to the Arkansas
and to the South Platte River and in some
modified form eventually to the San Luis
Valley or any other valley within the state.
We chose to start our modeling in the