BOARD00361

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

built, it WGuld export 'Nater out of a portion of the Colorado River basin in
Colorado. 1:e referred to the relationship, too, between this diversion and
the investigations fer use of San Juan-water within the basin itself..

The San Luis valley developMe~t, particularly the Conejos unit, was
discussed with reference to the protection of the fish, wildlife and re-
creational values in the area. 1,ir. c:;. E. Hagie, of the Colorado Garle and Fish
COIITr.1ission, John C. Page, con::::ultant of the Bureau of Recla.....nation, E. B.
Debler, Director of !leGion 7 of the Bur"~u of Reclamation, and others par-
ticipated in these disc~ssions.

The meeting recessed at 12135 P. iiI., to reconvene at 2s00 P. M.

Afternoon Session - September 13, 1945

The meeting reconvened and was called to order by temporary chairman, J.
M. Dille, at 2115 ~. M.

Mr. E. O. Larson, Director of Region 4, Bureau of Reclamation, was called
upon to present a report with respect to the status of investi~ations and
project development in the Colorado portion of his region. He explained that
reports had been prepared on the La Plata, the Florita and the Pine River
Extension and that btr. Hedderman, in charge of project investigation in the
San Juan basin, was now en~aged in getting revised reports in form to comply
with the preser:.t refjulaticns. It is his purpose, he said, to get these pro-
ject reports out as Quiokly as possible so that the subject projects could be
considere'" as a part of ~he im.':lediate postwar program.

Hr. Larson further reported that the report on the Paonia was ccmpleted
and would soon be officially sue-mitted to the State for its comments under tr.e
Flood Ccr:.trcl Act of 1944. He said that the ;jilt project was reported on in
1940 and was now beinv revised. A report was made in 1937 on the West Divide
project and it soon would be brou?",ht up to date; and that a report had been
nearly completed on the Collbran project near Grand Junction, Colorado, but
that the Bureau now had been invited to give consideration to added facilities
of the Collbran ,project for the purpose of providing municipal water for Grar.d
Junction and the surroundin~ area. MI. Larson further explained that, while
his office was working on these individual reports, there was other investi-
gational work which must be carried on in connection with proposed projects
for the exportation of water from the Colorado River Bas~n. y

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Mr. Nelson then reported on the Mancos project which is under construction
and discussed possible plans to continue the construction when conscientious
objector labor is removed, He also discussed the ,status of the Paonia project
which heretofore has been authorized, and mentioned the probable necessity of
obtaining a reauthorization because of the change in project plans and the
fact that under present costs of labor and materials, this project could not
be constructed within the original estimate.

There then ensued a long discussion of possible measures fer the pre-
servation and protection of the fish and wildlife in' connection with Reclamation
project development. This involved a number of projects, and Mr. C. N. Feast,
Director of the Colorado Game and Fish Commission, presented his views on
the subject.

:Mr. Royce J. Tipton, consulting engineer for the Colorado Y\9.ter Con-
servation Board, was called upon to give a report on the status of the