BOARD00868

• Board Meeting Date: 9/12/1955
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR, McLAUGHLIN: UWithin very strict limitations, It
takes quite a lot of training to prepare
a man for this type of work, I worked
out a schedule with Dean Crawford, We
can't increase the progress very rapidly
at anyone time, With this increase, we
should be able to handle it all right,U

MR, EAILEY:

UI think I should explain that one of
our jobs is to figure out where we want
to spend this money,U

MR, CRAWFORD:

ULast year we had the support of the
Agricultural Planning Committee which
helped in securing a $20,000 appropriation,
Emphasis has been placed on the dust bowl
areas, That is the reason we started in
Kit Carson County originally,U

Mr, Whitten asked if any of the proposed $30,000
appropriation would be used in the San Luis Valley,

Mr, McLaughlin replied that it would be up to the
Board to determine where the studies would be made,

MR, MOSES:

UI think what Mr, Whitten meant was to
see whether we could get assistance to
help in the critical condition on the
Rio Grande Compact situation, It will
be worse after this year is over, A
plan has been proposed of using the
$3,000 in the budget for the Rio Grande
project to study possible ways of
getting additional water to supply to
New Mexico, The Bureau has made the
suggestion that development of the
Closed Basin drain, with a relatively
small expenditure, might develop a
substantial amount of water that would
be introduced in the Rio Grande and
would alleviate shbrtages, Our present
thinking is that perhaps shallow wells
might augment supplies, They find that
digging a deep drain would not proportion-
ately increase development of the water,
There is the problem also of the quality

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