BOARD00941

• Board Meeting Date: 9/23/1966
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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million acre-feet of water in each ten year
period to the use of utah. New that's a terri-
fic burden for a small river. The Yampa River
rises in Ccloradc and ends in Ccloradc. It's
not an interstate stream at all. But we were
called upcn tc give to utah five millicn acre-
feet. New that's in the compact; I am not
complaining abcut it; but at the same time we
think that the Yampa River is entitled tc all
of the protecticn that we can get with respect
tc the delivery cf that water.

That's a tremendous burden and we can
handle that burden very well if we have a
reservcir at Juniper. Without a reservoir
Coloradc and the Cclorado irrigators, whc had
rights lcng befcre the ccmpact was ratified,
are facing a very bad pcsiticn. If the dam
is ccnstructed at Juniper, withcut loss and
withcut jecpardy tc the users cf the water in
the Yampa River, we can get alcng all right.
But withcut a reservoir, it's just impcssible
because we have tcgive tc Utah mere water than
we keep in Cclcradc. That, en its face, makes
it a very sericus and very heavy burden.

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I understccd ~tr. Crandall tc say in Salt
Lake that the trcuble with Juniper was that
there wasn't any water for it. Well, there is
five millicn acre-feet in every ten year
pericd, I know that. And we dcn't think Mr.
Crandall is in a positicn to determine hew much
water there is available tc any prcject. We
have undertaken the course cf action of provid-
ing for each prcject as it came up, providing
the water fer it. Sc it wculd be extremely
unfair if the Bureau cf Reclamation wculd gc
cut and put their finger dcwn here and say,
'Mr. Juniper, we wculd like tc de scmething
about it but we just don't have any water for
ycu'. They might say the same thing tc the
Yellow Jacket.

We dcn't think that we are asking fer any-
thing unreasonable at Juniper. We think we have