BOARD00935

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

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It's most difficult, actually, to forecast
the completion of any project with the
national and international situation being
the way it is today. But based upon
appropriations this year we can get a
better estimate within 30 days than we
could 30 days ago.

I might add that on the Chatfield we
have a major problem insofar as the State
of Colorado is concerned in obtaining approxi-
mately 7 or 8 miles of channel below the dam
now under construction. It is a responsi-
bility of the state to acquire the channel.
Since this will be a fairly expensive pro-
cedure, we have informed the municipalities
and towns concerned that they will be expected
to bear the major burden of the expense. We
have formed a committee consisting of repre-
sentatives of counties and cities concerned
to work actively with the staff of this Board
in securing the channel and also making
arrangements for the relocation of utilities,
bridges, and so on.

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The staff of this Board will do most
of the engineering work in laying out and
surveying the lands to be acquired. The
Corps of Engineers will run a line for us
along the center, or projected from the
center of the channel. It is a state respon-
sibility and this is the first time that I
know of that the state has been faced with
a major responsibility in acquiring lands
and rights-of-way for a major project of
this type. It will require the effort of
almost the entire staff for several months
in order to stake out the land ownership
areas. Then our attorneys. Mr. Moses with
some help from the staff, and the Attorney
General will have to check the abstracts,
land ownerships, and so on, This is a major
job and will take us perhaps two years to
accomplish, assuming we can get the money
from the legislature."