BOARD00852

• Board Meeting Date: 7/10/1950
• Description: Table of Contents, Minutes and Resolutions. Volumes I and II of Transcription of Meeting
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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In reference to Item 1 on the agenda" the Director reported that
no state comments on the Craig flood control situation had been prepared,
pending official action of the local interests at Craig. He said that
the proposed project involved some local obligations, and the community
had not yet decided to accept those obligations.

George Pughe, Board Member from Craig, presented a resume of the
flood problem at Craig, and summarized the emergency work done by the
Corps of Engineers in channelization and other precautions.

He announced that local interests had decided not to proceed with
the project proposed by the Corps of Engineers, and that this decision had
been made by the County Commissioners and the Town Board, in a resolution
which stated, in part:

"Therefore, be it resolved by the Board of Trustees
of the Town of Craig, Colorado, and the Board of County Com-
missioners of the C.ounty of Moffat, State of Colorado, while
recognizing the great benefit derived from the contribution
made by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, never-
theless it is the sense of this meeting that they cannot pro-
ceed further or make a complete project as originally designed
by the Department of the Army, but will await further develop-
ments and will probably attempt to make certain small correct-
ions avoiding the great expense".

Following additional discussion,

Mr. Pughe moved that. the Colorado Water Conservation
Board, on behalf of the State, submit adverse comments to the
report of the Army Engineers on the proposed Fortification
Creek Flood Control Project at Craig, Colorado, based upon un-
willingness of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Craig and
the Board of County Commissioners of Moffat County or other re-
sponsible local entity to assume the local financial and other
obligations imposed under the plan, and also because of the
need of further surveys and studies to determine the potentialities
for water conservation in aid of irrigation in connection with
flood control on Fortification Creek and also in r elation to the
water development program in the entire Craig area.

The motion was seconded by Mr. Cross. On vote, the
motion was unanimously carried.

The Director reported that new connnunication had been received from
the Corps of Engineers relative to the Dolores, Colorado, flood problem
(not on the meeting agenda). As a result of objections of the Colorado
Water Conservation Board to the original adverse report, the Corps of Engi-
neers announced their report had been modified to recommend a flood control