BOARD01111

• Board Meeting Date: 6/3/1970
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Sedgwick-Sand Draws, Plum Creek, Boxelder, Black
Squirrel, and Running Creek. Some are being
held up because of lack of land rights.

The State Soil Conservation Board and the
State Water Conservation Board have both con-
tributed appreciable manpower, assistance in I
acquiring land rights, providing technical ser- -,
vices and administrative assistance for con-
tracting.

Now a word about river basins - again the
Soil Conservation Service has the USDA leader-
ship responsibility in these activities and is
represented on the advisory committees in
Washington and at field locations to coordinate
the participation of USDA agencies. SCS, Forest
Service, and Economic Research Service take part
in the surveys and are represented on the com-
mittees.

SCS also represents the Department of Agri-
culture on five interagency river basin commit-
tees: namely, the Arkansas-White-Red, Missouri,
COlumbia, Pacific Southwest, and Northeastern
Resources COmmittee.

The three principal types of river basin
studies - there are actually four but three of
them are the principal ones - are Type I, Type
II and Type IV. In Colorado SCS is involved in
Type I surveys which are on major regional river
basins and Type IV surveys Which are on sub-
basins.

The SCS has the USDA leadership for both
types assisted by the Forest Service and the
ERS. These are interdepartmental - state
cooperative surveys. In Colorado SCS respon-
sibility is presently the Upper Colorado Region I
above Lee Ferry, comprising parts of Colorado,
Wyoming, utah, New Mexico and Arizona.

Type I river basin surveys involve an in-
ventory of present water and land uses, . potential