BOARD01033

• Board Meeting Date: 11/13/1963
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. EAKES:

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. EAKES:

come before this Board and tell, you that we
have agreed to something, in principle at
least. It will never be a unanimous agreement
because reason, by and large, has disappeared
in some instances.

I

That's all I have, Mr. Chairman."

"Are there any questions from the members
of the Board on the Director's report? Any
members of our audience care to ask any ques-
tions of the Director?"

"Mr. Chairman."

"Mr. Eakes."

"I can't let this report pass without a
comment, and I hope I can sound an alarm in
the comment. The report of the Director that,
because of budget cuts, we are going to have
to curtail the activities of this state and of
this Board in water preservation and water
conservation is highly alarming to me and I am
sure it is to you.

The areas in which I feel that cuts can
be made in budgets do not include our handling
of water matters. I feel that we have, in the
past, slept on our rights and slept on our
opportunities to conserve the water resources
of our state. We have watched other states
take our water and apply it to use where we
cannot recapture it. And I am very much
afraid that if we allow this situation to
happen, the curtailing of this Board in its
budget and of the Director and staff, that we
are going to see a repeat of the same thing in
the history of our water development in Colo-
rado.

I

We can't afford to have the inter-agency
meetings, the interstate meetings, concerning
water matters that effect our water rights to
be held without representation by Colorado. I
think it is imperative that we make every effort