BOARD00836

• Board Meeting Date: 9/6/1956
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Conclusions

9. In view of the foregoing, the State of Colorado
approves the report, with the following comments regarding her
position.

a. At the meeting of the Colorado Water Conservation
Board held in Montrose, Colorado on September 6, 1956, the
following motion was unanimously adopted:

"WHEREAS: The construction of Wagon
Wheel Gap Dam, a unit of the San Luis
Valley Project on the Rio Grande in
Colorado, was authorized by the
Secretary of the Interior on February
1, 1940, and

WHEREAS: a supplemental report
prepared by the Bureau of Reclamation
is now in the office of the Secretary
of the Interior for action,

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the
Colorado State Water Conservation Board,
that the Secretary of the Interior be
requested to approve said report and
request the appropriation of funds to
complete the construction of Wagon Wheel
Gap Dam, on the basis of the 1940
authorization."

b. The Weminuche Pass Division, which was found
infeasible by the Bureau of Reclamation's study, stated to be
without prejudice to future investigation, is still considered
a potential project by the State. Water supply criteria
used in the Bureau of Reclamation's studies could possibly
be modified, and coupled with a review of design estimates,
might result in a finding of feasibility for this Division
of the authorized San Luis Valley Project.

c. With respect to the Rio Grande Division, and
particularly Wagon Wheel Gap Reservoir, the unit would come under
terms of the Rio Grande Compact and be operated according to the
applicable provisions thereof. In light of certain statements
contained in the report, the Bureau of Reclamation's interpretation
of this Compact apparently differs in some respects from that
of Colorado, and the State wishes to clarify her interpretation:

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