BOARD01109

• Board Meeting Date: 11/7/1940
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

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summated whereby domestic and stock water was made available during the
present fall season to ten ditches where it was found the.t suoh use_a
eminently necessary. Further attention to the use or-water for stock and
domestio purposes must be given in the adjustment between the two groups
of water users. Mr. Whitten, Deputy State Engineer, assisted in this
work and rendered valuable servioe."

The report was ordered received, approved and made a part of the minutes of
this :meeting, with the understanding that the activities of the Direotor and J. M.
Dille on the problem mentioned in the feregoing report be continued.

Thereupon, M. C. Hinderlider, as Interstate Compact Commissioner on the
Republican River, submitted his report as follows:

PROGRESS REPORT COVERING NEGOTIATIONS I.OOKING
TO AN INTER-STATE RIVER COMPACT BE'rnJSJSN COID-
RADO, KANSAS AND NEBRASKA. COVERING TEE WATERS
OF THE RE.r>UjjLICAN RIVER BASIN.

"His Excellency
Ralph L. Carr, Governor
State of Colorado
State Capitol Building

My dear Governor Carr:

The following report covers progress to date on studies' of the water resouroes
of the Republican River Valley in the States of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska,
by the U. S. Army Engineers and the U. S. Bureau of Reoleina.tion, and reports
by these agenoies on the needs for water conservati~n and flood control within
the basin, and progress to date, looking to an Inter-state Compaot between the
three states.

The studies by the U. S. Engineers were initiated about two years ago, as a
result of which the Army Engineers issued their report in three volumes oovering
their conclusions. These studies included surveys, designs and estimates of
cost for some 18 projects in the Republioan River Basin in Colorado and Nebraska,
looated~both on the main stem of the Republican River and it& numerous tributaries.

Estimates of cost and benefits, covered projeots &olely for flood control. and
also for a multiple use involving both flood oontrol and cOJUlervation. The
aforementioned report was issued on February 27. 1940. This study included a
reservoir on the South Fork of the Republioan River a few miles above the Colorado.
Kansas state line, known as the Hale Reservoir site. Three reservoir sites on
the Arikaree were also studied, and the site at Beeoher Island. located about .
20 miles upstream,from the Colorado-Kansas line was considered t6 be the best .
site available for the control of floods on the' Arikaree.' None of the aforementione4 ,I
four reservoirs would be of material value to Colorado from the standpoim of
conservation, but would provide flood control for the lower fE1W miles' of the
valleys of the Arikaree and South Fork valleys in Colorado. This report also
includes oonclusioJUl covering flood oontrol on the North Fork ef the Republican
River at, and below, the town of Wray. '

The major development proposed by the U. 8. Engineers. would be a huge reservoir
on the main stem of the Republican River, near Republioan City, Nebraska. which
is designed prill'.arily for the control of floods for the protectien of the vallElY
below that point, and partioularly the Kansas oi ties. The report of the U. &.
Engineers on all the other 17 projeots in the basin, both from the standpoint

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