BOARD00455

• Board Meeting Date: 9/7/1967
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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NR . RROEGER :

"Are there questions from anyone in front?
Than];; you, Hr. Ingles."

MR. INGLES:

"Thank you."

Em. SPARI<S:

"Mr. Chairman, and members of the Board, in
connection with the report on the Narrows Unit,
the 25 cubic feet per second of time that was
requested to be released, that matter was dis-
cussed at some length with our staff and with
the Bureau staff. That recommendation was made
by the Nater Pollution Control Agency of the
Department of the Interior. ostensibly this
request for continuous release is for the
purpose of water quality. The request was
that the State of Colorado guarantee that 25
second feet be released from the Narrows Reser-
voir and that that 25 second feet be maintained
in the river until it reached the Nebraska state
line.

Obviously, under our constitution and
under our water laws, appropriators downstream
are entitled to take whatever water is avail-
able in the stream. We don't have sufficient
water available for storage in the Narrows in
order to make additional water available for
this purpose. Upon an examination of the
request of the Water Pollution Control Agency,
we found that their real reason was that they
were interested in maintaining a flow for
fishery and recreational purposes in the South
Platte River That purpose is n0ne of their
business. That is not what they were consti-
tuted for. We find that we constantly have to
watch that agency to see that it doesn't go
beyond the bounds of the legislation which
authorized its creation. Hore and more from
that agency is coming a demand that the State
of Colorado maintain a given amount of water
in our various rivers. Obviously, when we do
so, this inures to the benefit of the downstream
states. I suppose they could work out an agree-
ment on the Platte but, after all, if the
thirteen states involved in the Missouri and