BOARD00836

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

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From there you will go uphill over
Cerro Summit, up the main Highway 50, east
as far as Sapinero, with the intention of
showing the approximate locations from the
canyon rim of the various dams of the
Curecanti project. Somewhere at noon
we will have a lunch sponsored by the
Uncompahgre Valley and Cimarron Ditch
Company. From there you will go to
Sapinero, over Black Mesa and down into the
Crawford area where you will have an
opportunity to see the Smith Fork and
Redlands Mesa projects. Tomorrow evening
the people of the Crawford area will have
an informal early supper at Crawford.

As I said before, this tour is
designed to acquaint you with the area.
In the log Hill area, which you will see first
this afternoon, you will see an undeveloped
area. That is a unit of the Dallas. I
believe there is around 12,000 acres of
land which is in need of irrigation in
that area. Then going into Pleasant
Valley. That is one of the sites of the
reservoir involved. And going then over
in the Cow Creek area, you will pass the
proposed dam site on the Uncompahgre River,
and that would be a development to provide
necessary water, replacing storage, for
water used on the Log Hill country on the
Dallas project. It would also be the location
to provide storage for the Uncompahgre Project.
Over on the Cow Creek area we will go to the
Ramshorn site. The emphasis has been the fact
that the water is at the present time available
from the stream flow but is not developed in order
to be applied to these arid lands.

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Coming to something I am more familiar
with as Manager of the Uncompahgre Valley
Water Users Association. Here, in our own
valley, we have a project which is old in
the annals of Reclamation. It is one
of the first. All of the experiments have
been carried out here and our mistakes
have been corrected on new projects. However,