BOARD00935

• Board Meeting Date: 9/5/1968
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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a system of reservoirs, local protection
projects, and channel and levee improvements
. on the main stem from John Martin Dam to the
Colorado-Kansas state line. When plans of
potential projects are more fully developed I
they will be presented to local interests and
interested agencies for informal comment and
suggestions. At that time the requirements
of local cooperation also will be presented
and assurances of local cooperation will be
requested for sponsoring organizations.

Under preauthorization planning, Rio
Grande and Tributaries above the Co1orado-
New Mexico state line, the Albuquerque Dis-
trict is aware of the water resources problems
in the Rio Grande Basin in Colorado and of
the desire of the state and local interests
for a study by the Corps of Engineers to
determine the feasibility of improvement for
flood control, major drainage, and related
purposes. The District Engineer and members
of his staff have discussed the problems and
the investigational procedures with the Rio
Grande Water Conservation District, Colorado
Water Conservation Board, and the Rio Grande
Compact Commission. Authorization and funds
are prerequisites to the study. The State of
Colorado, through its congressional delega-
tion, recently obtained the necessary con-
gressional authority, but funds to initiate
the study have not yet been provided by the
Congress. Until such time as the needed
funds are appropriated, the work on the study
cannot proceed.

Going on to the flood plain management
program in Colorado, flood plain management
activities authorized by the 1960 Flood I
Control Act as amended by the 1966 Flood
Control Act have been accelerated in the
Arkansas River and Rio Grande basins in Colo-
rado. The referenced legislation authorizes
the Corps to provide flood plain information,
advice and assistance to communities and