BOARD00647

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

the project and the other power aspects of tma project are defeated,
as there has been a continual effort for a long period of time, there
still are residual benefits to the western slope and to the state
of Colorado.

Mr. Berthe1son: We are concerned about the residue, though how much?
. L~t m~ refer to this map ~d ask j~s~ c:>ne more ~estion. ThdithS ~i~e I.
R~ver comes down to what ~s now pr~~t~ve area ~n green, an ~s ~s
the Meadows area, theh the South Fork of the White River progresses
on down back into the Wilderness area. So here we are, we take out
two or three miles, a gerrymandered line I would call it, to provide
for man-made development in the middle of the Wilderness area which
CiUl"''' help "t affect this stream materii,\l1y. The f&CltS wUl cer-
tainly ehow thai;., that if this deve10pmE4"'lt here on the Meadows by
~ither you or the River District raises fruition, then this river
h~s to be materially affected. I understand that the river produces
about 47,000 acre-feet here at the Meadows site, in round numbers or
something like that. So when we talk about a 100,000 acre-filing,
we are talking about sometime or another you are going to have to
mat~ria1ly change that river.. It does seem incompatible to the
people in our area. I don't see how you can say it is compatible to
have this type of proposal projecting into that Wilderness area.

Mr. Brannan: Well, the damsite will be in public domain that is not
i~ ~he Wilderness area. Access to it will be available from the
public domain and will not have to cross the Wilderness area. There
will have to be some re-arrangel!lent of some of the transport~tion
systems to the Piceance Basin because of the addition of the yellow
area in the southwest side of the area.

May I speak to your first point? This is 47,000 acre-feet in the
White River. That more or less is correct as far as I know. I am
not a hydrologist and I haven't made this study in detail. But
there are two or three other streams which will add to the supply.

Mr. Berthelson: The stream would fluctuate a little bit, wouldn't
it, materially, but not of necessity?

Mr. Brannan: Not as much as it fluctuates today.

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Mr. Eierthelson: You think it will remain something like what it does
today?

Mr. Brannan: I don't think it is an engineeringly feasible thi.nq to
do, but I am convinced beyond a shadow of a db$t thlilt the federal
agencies and the state agencies are going to think of doing.

Mr. Stanleton: Mr. Ten Eyck.

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