BOARD00836

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

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Park project. Believe there has also
some priority been set on the Dallas
Creek Unit, and we would certainly
like to have those investigations
go forward just as rapidly as possible.

We are faced in this area with
possible diversions. I was interested in
the talk about the Rio Grande project and
possible diversions there. In this area some
of our head waters are quite high and they
are susceptible to diversion to the Eastern
Slope. We definitely want to get our word
in for water that is developed here ahead
of anyone that has an idea for diversion.
It is imperative that we get the
development of the water here because it
is needed here. We have contended that here
at Montrose, which possibly has water
available, for a l~o growth. Beyond
that point even domestic water will become a
problem. We have a million dollar power
plant put in by the Western Colorado Power
Company. They are hard pressed at times
to take water out of the river for their
use. Any future development in this
area is dependent upon the development of
water on the Uncompahgre.

In our :Unit we are fortunate with
having developed at a .rather cheap price
106,000 acre feet of water in the Taylor
Park Reservoir, approximately a hundred.
miles from the Uncompahgre Valley. But
in order to utilize that Taylor Park
reservoir we have to bring that water through
the Gunnison Tunnel. We have to bring it in
past any number of diversions on the Gunnison
River. We have the problem of having
designed a project that would take 1300
second feet of water for normal usage and
ending up with a tunnel that will only carry
980' feet maximum. We have, as a development
in participating projects, to devise some
way of keeping that additional water that
has been decreed to us through the Gunnison
Tunnel. That is the difference between the
maximum oJ 980' ,feet that we actually get and the
1300 feet decreed.

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