BOARD00887

• Board Meeting Date: 7/8/1966
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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for the period April to September, particularly
in the Arkansas and south Platte River basins.
Sn01t~lt peaks occurred on most streams during
the first of May, which is typical for years
\.,i th low snowpack.

The Bureau of r1ines and the Atomic Energy
Commission deepened their Yellow Creek No. I
Test Hole to the base of tile oil shale in ~~y.
D. L. Coffin and F. A. Welder spent the week
of May 23 running hydrologic tests on the
completed hole. The Duck Creek Test Hole was
begun on June 21. More extensive testing is
planned for the Duck Creek Test Hole.

Arkansas Valley model analyses were sup-
plied to tile State Engineer's office in May.
The analyses depicted changes in river gain
and loss caused by pumping wells at different
distances from tile river in different parts of
the valley.

During the week of June 13, a mass measure-
ment of electrical conductivity of ground \.,ater
was made at operating wells in tile Arkansas
River Valley between Pueblo and Coolidge,
Kansas. Very little data were obtained in the
area belm., John Martin Reservoir as most of the
pumps were shut d01tffi because of the availabil-
ity of reservoir water.

A field office has been opened in Alamosa
to begin \.,ater-resources studies in the San
Luis Valley. Philip A. Emery, geologist,
transferred to Alamosa from the Geological
Survey office in Lincoln, NebrasJ~a, on June
29 and will be in charge of the office.
A. J. Boettcher of the Denver Ground Water
office will transfer to Alamosa and 2 or 3
others will be recruited to work on the proj-
ect.

An intensive study of the South platte
Valley below Denver will be started this month.
Donald R. Albin is the project chief. The ~lork
will be done from the Denver office.

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