BOARD00822

• Board Meeting Date: 4/27/1953
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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This resolution was passed by the Committee for recommend-
ation to the Board. Later, at the following meeting of the
Conference Committee, on April 15, Mr. Merriell presented for
consideration,ofthe Committee and recommendation to the Board,
the following proposed revision, which he thought possessed
merit:

\VHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board did
by motion adopted on 17th February 1953, create the Colorado
Conference Committee of five members for the express purpose
of submitting to the Committeeu. . . . the matter concerning
the request of Denver for federal funds with which to divert
approximately 177,000 acre-feet of water from Blue ~iver . .
(Here provides for appointin~members of this Committee). . .
the committee to have full power to employ whatever engineers
and obtain whatever engineering data they may determine as being
necessary for them to reach a conclusion in said matter and to
make a recommendation to this Boardi. . . . . and

vrnEREAS, subsequent thereto, certain members of the
Conference Committee appeared before legislative committees
of the General Assembly asking for appropriation of $100,000
for financing a basin-wide report on the water resources of
Western Colorado, and were successful in obtaining this approp-
riation by means of a bill (H.B. 457) which in its,Section 1
says: uSECTION 1. The Colorado Water Conservation Board is
hereby authorized and directed forthwith to make, or cause I
to be made, a study of the water resources available from
surface supplies in that part of Colorado which lies west of
the Continental Divide, and a study of the present and
. potential uses thereof to. the full extent necessary to a
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. 'l'he studies so to be made shall include
analyses of the extent to which water may be transferred from
one watershed to another within the state without injury to
the potential economic development of the natural watershed from