BOARD01106

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

Commission is here today to get your
expressions and views. This is a very
acute problem in the South Platte and
in eastern Colorado. It has not been
decided by our Supreme Court and it may
well be. There has been a group of I
lawyers, engineers and technicians work-
ing'on a new state water code which may
have a bearing on this matter. Mr. Moses
of our Board is spearheading that work.
I don't think anybody can give an answer
to it right now. It may come from the
Supreme Court in a few years in a way
that none of us like. In an attempt to
forestall, we are trying to, by the
government's aid, to determine the relation-
ship between stream flow and return flow
and until we get a great deal more basic
information in eastern Colorado, where I
am most familiar with -- there isn't any
clear-cut answer but the Ground Water
Commission is working on those problems
day and night with this Board and they
are attempting to determine the relation-
ship.

That is just a layman's viewpoint
of that because in just about every meeting
we hear of it, every hearing and every
conference.

MR. STAPLETON:

The Governor would like to ask Mr.
Douglas a question.

GOVERNOR MCNICHOLS: I was wondering, Mr. Douglas, is it
your impression that if this project was
started on a pilot basis, let's assume
that it was found out that it did lower
the tables and some irrigators were in- I
jured in this, does the Bureau of
Reclamation have to have control of this
pilot project because the government puts
up the money or could a local Board be set
up which would make the determination as
to the basis of the facts that were developed
from the perimeter wells that it was in-
juring somebody? I am not sure anyone in
this state would be too happy to have out-
siders sit in judgment of whether or not