BOARD00736

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

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F. We urge and recommend that the Colorado Water Con-
servation Board be directed and authorized immediately to
complete its study of the water resources presently available
in and to the State of Colorado, and the present and potential
uses thereof. This should be done in order to achieve the
unified and harmonious development of those waters for bene-
ficial use in Colorado to the fullest extent possible under the
law, including the law created by Compacts affecting the use
of said water. We recommend that the Board, in the undertaking
of this work, enlist the help of engineers, attorneys and other
technicians from local irrigation, conservancy, conservation,
drainage and'other districts, and private individuals and firms
within the State, at the expense of the State. Adequate appro-
priations must be made by the State Legislature to the Water
Conservation Board for such purpose.

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I. We recommend an immediate reappraisal, and thereafter
a continuous review and appraisal of Colorado's position with
respect to current and pending interstate water matters, to the
end that there may be a complete and accurate analysis and deter-
mination of:

(l)--the rights of Colorado in such matters, (2)--how the same
may be affected by the claims of other states and the Federal
Government, (3)--the future course of action to be taken by
Colorado therein. In this regard, we have in mind, particularly,
the many and complicated problems arising in connection with the
Rio Grande River, the Colorado River, the Colorado River Storage
Project and Participating Projects Act, the litigation now pend-
ing between Arizona and California as to their respective rights
to waters in the Colorado River, and the extent to which a
decision in that litigation may adversely affect Colorado rights
in the stream.

, Subsequent to the meeting of the Colorado Water Congress
on June 4, the Organization Committee of said Congress has given
consideration to further recommendations which it might make to
the Colorado Water Conservation Board in connection with said
matters to implement the recommendations made in such platform
above set forth and the action already taken by the General
Assembly in making available funds which can be used for" such
purposes.

At a meeting of the Organization Committee of the
Colorado Water Congress held yesterday, July 17, 1958, here in
Durango, there was unanimously adopted the following proposal
to be submitted to the Colorado Water Conservation Board for
its consideration: