BOARD00586

• Board Meeting Date: 4/8/1959
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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is interested in the prosperity of every
section of this State because Denver's
welfare is so closely tied to the welfare
of the entire State. For that reason we
are quite sympathetic with the fullest
possible development in every section of
the State of all its water resources on the
basis of the highest economic use of the water
available to us; and to us it doesn't make
so much difference what basin the water is
used in, if it is best for the whole state.

Here is a matter which would supposedly
rather tie the hands of this Board for a
period of five years. That is, the resolu-
tion doesn't even limit it at all. It makes
it perpetual, but Mr. Sparks has pointed out
a perpetual limitation ought not to be and
he suggests a period of five years. I doubt
if this B@ard should endeavor, without con-
sultation with the various interests in the
state which may be effected, to bind itself
or tie its own hands, or even purport to do
so if it could, and for that reason I would
suggest that a matter of this kind be sub-
mitted for state-wide consideration.

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Now at considerable effort we have
formed the Colorado Water Congress. The
Congress has been supported by this Board
and this Congress is doing everything it
can to help the Board itself. Through the
Colorado Water Congress thousands of dollars
of contributed time by engineers and lawyers
have been made available to this Board for
state-wide interests. This Water Congress
should be used. We have very strenuously,
during the last year, worked at an effort to
see that all of us in Colorado will pull to-
gether on our water problems; that whatever
is done in any particular section will be
done in such a way as not to hurt others if
at all possible. Now through the medium of
this Congress we have attained a spirit and
a fact of unity in water matters that we have
never had in Colorado before.

I believe that the adoption of this re-
solution without general consideration, state-
wide and an opportunity for perhaps some modi-
fications to meet the need of other sections