BOARD00647

• Board Meeting Date: 8/15/1973
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

maybe they are not viable today, are nbe your plans) and this is
documented I guess in the District Court, don't they include
switching water and perhaps selling water east of the Continental
Divide?

Mr. Brannan: There have been explorations with the five northern
cities to take the power and the water.

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Yes, sir. Let me make two points very, very clear. First of all,
that would only be done if we are totally defeated in an effort to
utilize the water in the manner which we have declared we intend to
use it. And second, may I just call your attention to a little bit
of history? In 1961, the counsel for the Colorado River Water Con-
servation District and the Rocky Mountain Power Company got together
and said, "We ought to work out this problem of any transmountain
diversions arid the development into your project." And they developed
a contract, the terms of which I would just like to read to you, one
paragraph, if I may. Now this is the company and the company named
the Rocky Mountain Power Company.

"The Company agrees that it will not sell, rent, lease, or make
available any water of the White River or the Colorado River or its
tributaries which may be impounded in any of its storage facilities
to any person or entity for use in exchange for, or replacement of
water to be exported beyond the natural basin of the Colorado River,
provided that the Company may contract with the City of Colorado
Springs and its suburban areas to purchase, rent or lease, not to
exceed 1,500 acre-feet of water in anyone calendar year to be used
by that city."

That was approved by Rocky Mountain Power Company and it was tendered
to the District.

And I read to you from a letter dated June 8, 1961, directed to
Mr. Charles Beise, Attorney at Law, Rocky Mountain Power Company,
Denver, Colorado.

"Dear Mr. Beise:

The Board of Directors of the Colorado River Water Conser~ation Dis- I
trict met in special session June 7, 1961, to consider a draft of
agreement between the Rocky Mountain Power Company and the Colorado
River Water Conservation District as prepared by you and Mr. John D.
Barnard, Sr. in the offices of Barnard and Barnard at Granby, Colo-
rado, on May 3l, 1961. After due consideration, the board passed
the following resolution: Be it resolved that the Board of Directors
for the Colorado River Water Conservation District consider it in-
advisable to enter into any proposed agreement with Rocky Mountain

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