BOARD00736

• Board Meeting Date: 7/18/1958
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF
COLORADO WATER CONGRESS
BEFORE
COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
DURANGO, COLORADO, JULY 18, 1958

During the Second Regular Session of the 41st General I
Assembly of the State of Colorado earlier this year, largely '.
as a result of the efforts of the Governor and the Attorney
General, who appeared specially before such session in connect-
ion therewith, there was appropriated by the Legislature $50,000
to be expended by the Colorado Water Conservation Board with the
approval of the Governor for special legal and engineering stud-
f~s~

In support of such request made by the Governor and the
Attorney General, there was at the time furnished to each member
of the Legislature a copy of the proposed platform of the Colo-
rado Water Congress then in the process of being organized, which
proposed platform urged and recommended, among other things, a
certain specific program for immediate action, including the
undertaking by the Colorado Water Conservation Board of a com-
pletion of its studies of the water resources presently available
in and to the State of Colorado, a reappraisal of Colorado's
position with respect to various and certain pending interstate
water matters, and the appropriation of adequate funds for the use
of the State Water Conservation Board for such purposes.

On June 4, 1958, pursuant to the call of the Governor and
the Attorney General, the Colorado Water Congress met in Denver
and then and there adopted in principle the proposed platform
of such Congress. Subdivision I of such platform provides in
part as follows:

I. Colorado Water Conservation Board

Recognizing that the Colorado Water Conservation Board
is the agency of the State which is charged with the responsibility
of promoting the conservation and utilization of the water re-
sources of the State, we have reviewed and appraised the functions
and procedures of this Board. From such review and appraisal it
is apparent that the immediate key to an effective program of
water development for Colorado is the broadening, acceleration
and strengthening of the activities of the Board, especially as
follows:

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