BOARD00426

• Board Meeting Date: 2/22/1951
• Description: Minutes and Information
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

"'50
- - z. v

Dan B. Hunter announced that he had subllJitted the matter of the revision
of the Operating Principles for the proposed Fryingpan-Arkansas Project to the
Southwestern Water Conservation District Board and read the resolution passed
by that Board with respect to the matter.

I

The Board proceeded to discuss these resolutions and questions relating
to the revision of the Operating ~rinciples, particularly the suggested revision
of Paragraph 15. Discussion continued until 11130 a.m. when Governor Thornton,
who is an ex officio member and Chairman of the Board, ente:ed the meeting.

The Governor explained that this was the first opportunity since he was
inaugurated to attend a meeting of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, but
that other commitments would not make it possible for him to participate for any
length of time in the present meeting. He stated, hovfever, that he expected to
participate as fully as possible in future meetings of the Board. He had main-
tained. a personal interest in the water situation, and as Governor, he recognized
that the State's most important resource is water. He asserted that the State of
Colorado must tio everything possible to protect and develop that reso~ce.

The Board recessed for lunch at 12 noon.

Afternoon Session
February 22, 1951

The afternoon session of the Board was preceded by an executive meeting
of the members at 1130 p.m.

Jean S. Breitenstein was requested to report on recent developments in
the effort to adjust intrastat:e and interstate problems on the Laramie River.
He explained that he, R. J. 1lpton, Consulting Engineer, and ]1. M. Gildersleeve,
Chief Engineer of the JOard, had participated in a series of conferences to de-
velop a formula for the adjustment of the intrastate use of Laramie River water
as a basis for further conferences wi th the State of \{yoming.

I

It was moved by John A Cross and second by Dan H. Hughes
that the Director of the Colorado ITater Conservation Board be
authorized to arrange the necessary conferences of affected
State interests in the Laramie River water, such conferences to
be participated in by representatives of the Colorado ffater Con-
servation Board, the In-Basin meadowland users of water in
Colorado, the diversionists from the Laramie River Basin of
Northeastern Colonado and the office of the Attorney General;
and that theIDirector, at the appropriate time, proceed to ar-
range further conferences with the State of Wyoming in an effort
finally to adjust long continued intrastate and interstate
Laramie River problems. On vote being taken, the motion was
unanimously carried and declared passed.

The Board resumed its discussion of the revision of the Operating Princi-
ples for the propbsp.d Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. Judge Hughes referred to the
resolution of the Colorado River i'later Conservation District Board which he had
presented in the forenoon session. He explained that his crontactsoin Western
Colorado and discussion with the Colorado River \{ater Con.ser'vation District Board,
since the meeting of the Colorado Water Conservation Board on February 9,