BOARD00531

• Board Meeting Date: 5/7/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

give us some money to start construction
on it.

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Advance planning studies on the Savery-
Pot Hook Project are nearing completion.
Plan formulation, water supply studies, and
proposed farm unit layouts have been com-
pleted. Cooperative studies with other
federal agencies are continuing. On March
11 representatives of the Bureau of Recla-
mation, both the Grand Junction office and
the Salt Lake Regional office, representa-
tives of the Colorado River Water Conserva-
tion District, your Director of the Colorado
Water Conservation Board, the Wyoming state
engineer, and other officials met with the
local conservancy district there and the
local interests to explain the project plan
and the results of our studies, particularly
as to settlement and farm sizes. The local
people and the conservancy district expressed
their agreement and their satisfaction with
the results of our studies, so we are ready to
proceed now and get the reports finished up
as soon as possible.

The way this is working out on the farm
size and the bolstering up of old farms in
the area with new land, it leaves only about
five or six new settlement units that we'll
have in the Savery-Pot Hook Project. The
land will all be divided out among existing
landowners in the area, except for that much.

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The representatives of the Bureau of
Reclamation and the Colorado Board of Land
Commissioners are up in the area this week
making appraisals of the state-owned land in
the Pot Hook area to determine how we are
going to transfer those from the State of
Colorado to the Bureau of Reclamation for
settlement and development.

The work is continuing on the Overland
Ditch and Reservoir Company's small project