BOARD00361

• Board Meeting Date: 9/13/1945
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

that in the preparation of these opmments he oonsult with
the Direotor, Mr. Dille, Miss Pointer, Mr. Bannister and
E. B. Debler.

The motion was unanimously oarried and deolared
wassed.

Mr. Patterson reported On the investigations now being made by the Army
Engineers of the Huerfano River in Colorado. He stated that the report of
the Army Engineers was adverse. He also reported with respeot to the investi-
gations of the Corps of Army Engineers on the Purgatoire River. He said that
the Distriot Engineer, in making his investigations, was oooperating with the
Bureau of Reolamation. He advised that the Army Engineers, aooording to
information furnished to him, were planning to prepare another report whioh
would give three alternatives for the so-oalled Trinidad area. One is
ohannelization through the City of Trinidad, the seoond is a reservoir above
Trinidad for flood oontrol purposes only, and the third is a reservoir above
Trinidad for a oombination of flood oontrol and irrigation.

Thereupon the Board further oonsidered the immediate postwar program of
water developnent for the State of Colarado and Mr. Dutoher offered and moved
the passage of the following resolutionl

WHEREAS projeots for the utilization and oontrol of water
in the seventeen Western arid and semi-arid state. will oonstitute
a part of the major publio works program for the immediate postwar
period; and that efforts are being made to expedite projeot investi-
gations ~or water development improvements; and

WHEREAS it seems advisable for the Colorado Water Conservation
Board to formulate a definite water development program for the State
of Colorado to be followed in the immediate postwar period in order
that the efforts of the State may have definite objeotives; and

WHEREAS suoh an immediate program is understood to mean the
inolusion of such activities ,and proposed development as may
reasonably be expeoted in the near future and does not exolude the
broader and more extensive program whioh will prooeed as fast as
projeot investigations may be completed and projeots made ready
for authorization in the future;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Con-
servation Board that, wi thin such understanding of "immediate post-
_r period," the following projeots and aotivities oonsti tute the
immediate postwar water development program for the State of Colorado,
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1. The Colorado-Big Thompson projeot. The oontinuation
of the oonstruotion of this projeot, being a development for the
exportati on ef water from the Colorade River Basin in Colorado for
the making of supplemental water supplies available to the Northern
Colorado Water Conservanoy Distriot and for power development,
subjeot to the provisions of Senate Doo\llllent No. 80, 75th Congress,
I st Sessi on.

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2. The Mancos projeot. The oontinuation of the oonstruotion