BOARD00985

• Board Meeting Date: 2/5/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

I

appropriation system that are taking from the
same source of supply. a common source of
supply and nobody has. or should have. at any
time any pride of authorship. What we are
trying to do is solve COlorado's water problems
and we can't do it walking in different direc-
tions.

We've worked very closely with the staff
of the Board and Mr. Welborn's draft was
first sent to the Board September 26. to the
staff of the Board. Subsequent thereto.
within a very few days. Mr. Welborn wrote a
letter and said he wanted to get together with
Mr. Sparks and Mr. Hamburg and go over this.
Now there isn't that much difference. Actually
other than this concept as to whether you are
going to have water commissions throughout
the state acting as a referee or whether you
are going to have administrators within a
hearing section of the state engineer's office
who are charged with the administration of the
waters of the river. to provide the manpower
and the mechanics necessary to get this job
done. They are referees in both instances.
As Mr. Sparks correctly pointed out. through-
out the united States we are about the only
state that does not have some sort of a system
whereby they can use the expertise of the
state engineer's office and the water board
and the various other state agencies that are
interested in water law.

I

This suggestion has come to us from the
grass roots. We are told that people want a
simplified method of having these water rights
determined. If there was ever a point made
consistently in where I would say there is
unanimity it is in this feature of having a
referee of some type in this picture. Now
the method of how you do it. we have sug-
gested one method. We feel under our method
rather than having boards you are going to
have highly technically qualified people who
will be assisting our division engineers and