BOARD01106

• Board Meeting Date: 2/3/1962
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

FROM THE FLOOR:

Who is that?

MR. SPARKS:

Your Conservancy District is the
San Luis Valley Conservancy District and
the Conejos Conservancy District are the
two agencies which are vested with the
responsibility for determining matters
pertaining to water down here. I assume
their decision would be the one that
governs as long as it was based upon actual
evidence. It is no difficult job. This
is a simple thing, it is simple to determine
whether or not the water table is coming
down.

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This project would have a series of
observation wells connected with it so
it is a simple matter to determine your
water table. But, certainly, I think this
Conservancy District would be the governing
body as it is throughout the state in
connection with these federal projects
or you would have no water.

GOVERNOR MCNICHOLS: Have you researched about the contribution
of ground water?

MR. SP ARKS :

I don't think it has any bearing on
the project. We would see that it was
taken care of in the legislation, that there
would be provisions that this did not create,
this pumping of water, did not create any
obligation against the State of Colorado.
It would take care of that either in the
legislation or in the documents which --
the Senate or House documents which accompany
that. We were worried, of course, about
setting some precedent, as Mr. Coleman
stated, but that since this would be a
federal project, the mechanics of that
would be taken care of in the federal
legislation and that was something we fore-
saw at the beginning that that was something
that would have to be taken care of. We
did not want any obligation created against
the State of Colorado which would force us
to pump water into the river in the event

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