BOARD01143

• Board Meeting Date: 12/11/1953
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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THUS it is conceivable that the narrower this margin
the longer the participating projects will have to
wait for any construction on any participating pro-
jects, and particularly the PAONIA PROJECT which, as
above noted, was authorized in 1939 and for which the
sum of Three l'iillion Thirty Thousand (J3,030,OOO.OO)
Dollars was subsequently appropriated, all of which
has to date not provided ONE ECRE FOOT OF STORAGE WATER,
and .

WHEREAS the Fire Mountain Canal, the pri~ary distribution
system of the Paonia Project, continues to be short of
water each and every year fro~ the time the decreed
natural flow water tapers off in August, to the point
of being co:npletely dry, a situation unchanged fro.n
that existing from the date of original construction
of the Fire j\jountain Canal, not-with-standing the
fact that the Bureau of Reclamation has spent, we are
advised, in excess of ONE MILLION DOLLARS to date.

MOREOVER, the information available to the directors
of the North Fork Water ~onservancy District is that,
under present conditions the situation with respect
to any Reservoir phase of the Paonia Project will remain
unchanged until Congress otherwise acts and that such
act is not anticipated, under present conditions until
the Colorado River Storage Project and participating
projects has been authorized by Congress, Now Therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Directors of the North
Fork Water Conservancy District, the contracting agency
between the United States and the Water Users Associa-
tion of the PAONIA PROJECT, Colorado,

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THAT,
1. Every effort be made by the Colorado Water Con-
servation Board to expedite the Congressional authori-
zation of the Colorado River 8torage Project and parti-
cipating projects (the PAONIA PROJECT BEING IN THE
LATTER GROUP) that the terms and obligations of both
the Colorado River Compact of 1922 and the UPPER
COLORADO RIVER BASIN COMPACT of 1948 be realized to
the end that full econo:nic AGRICULTURAL and INDUSTRIAL
development of the entire area of the Upper Colorado
River Basin be accomplished at the earliest practicable
date, and

2. That theColorado Water Conservation Board, the
Policy making Agency of the State of Colorado, as
well as all other Agencies that have influence in the
making of Policy on the part of the State of Colorado,
BE ASKED TO KEEP IN MIND, the facts here-in-above
set forth pertaining to the present and potential
situation <bhe PAONIA PROJECT has been forced into
through no act of its own, in its deliberations and
determinations as to what Storage Project in Colorado
be included in the Initial Phase of the Colorado River
Storage Project, and