BOARD00836

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

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MR. KOBES:

MR. MOSES:

MR. SWEET:

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"I am not aware of that. Is that under
this.plan'?"

"This plan. I would like Mr. Sweet to
outline, if this 60 feet were granted in the
, winter, the number of acres which would have
to be taken out of the project. The farmers
are going to pay for this."

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.
"We dealt with the State--Dean Crawford
and his staff--on negotiating with the State
Game and Fish Commission in regards to
this release. With a release of 60 second
feet, except when the inflow gets less than
that, there would be 8000 acre feet on the
average going down the river in the winter-
time.' By reducing the 60 second feet by
the amount of the Goose,Creek inflows which
enter the river'a mile below, 'we find we would
have an average of about 5000 acre feet
released. Insofar as possible we have done
everything to mitigate the damages except
let that water down the river. It belongs
to the'farmers and not the Bureau. So we :
look "to the Water Board. The best deal
we could arrive at was 5000 acre feet
a year: "that we would have to turn down. The
only place to get the 5000 acre feet is take
two thousand acres out of cultivation in that
area, and as far as the Bureau is concerned
that is not within our sphere of operation;
If the State says we want to do that, we would
do it. That water is over-appropriated on
the river now. That is what it would amount
to. Two to three thousand acres of the land
would have to go out of cultivation, reduced
by the'Goose Creek wateL. Goose Creek comes
in about a mile below the dam and actually
the winter flow, we estimate, is in the
neighborhood of 15 second feet. Whether tha~
would still be too little I don't know. But
it narrows down to that one problem, that if"
y.ou find two to three thousand acres of :
land to take out of irrigation and some junior
appropriator did not claim the water, you
would have something to turn loose in the
winter.

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We had difficulties in the period of 1930
to 1940 and continued our operation study;