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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QOl.llJIluntty through the Chamber o-t Commerce, through a water ~om-
mittse they havs,their~oard Of County Oommissioners, Ith1nk,

are involved in it, and aeveral of our service groupe, expressed
a et:t'O,ne; des1re not to have the Gunnison Rlver flooded from_
OUt'flOant1upstl'Balll. The buts tor tb,at 1s they have about 5000
aares of' r1ver bottolll and othe1" landthqt would be flooded.
'hat 18a large proportion, a9 I remember 1t, of the irripted
area in the ~~ty .ofGunnlson.
Some 15; 1 th1nk wae the figure I gave, resorts would be
,flooded, and it would Change the wholeplctul'e 'from a stream
fishing areA to l!lJte fleh1ng. We have as "et had no definite
proposal from the Bureau of tteclamat10n in eonnecUon with the
looationO't the dd on the upper Gunnison.
,At Grand Junotlon somethlng ~round three montha ago. we
bad a lIleeUng and at that t1l1le Hr. Jex asked 11" you could-give
us the Informatlon on the proposed def1n1te lOGation, and we
tUdn<>t ~t that information. Up to date, as tar al!l ,I know"
there h~9 been nothing but conjecture 1n~o~ar as the e1t1e8ns
of the Oounty of Gunnison llJ"e oOllloerned or the re9t of us on the
Westen Slone IUl towhet'$ the droll was to be located. Mr. alter
, . ,

says where 1t should be located. fbat information should be

put out to get definite 1'eaot10n of all the peOple involved.

Oel"ta1nly, the1'e 19 11 oonsiderable group over there that w~u1d

ratheI' have the storage on the upper end. When we talk abOut

spending ~ouQd a hundl'ed m1.1110l1 dollar9 of the t~paye!'sl