BOARD01143

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

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The recent reports to the effect that the Executive intends
to appeal to the people on this issue unless a compromise be
made, is, in our opinion, another improper e.ttempt to sway
public opinion at a time when cases of far-reaching importance,
involving the same fundamental facts, are pending in the courts.
"Compromise," as it was used, means that Western Colorado is to
permit the City and County of Denver to take water aiready ap-
propriated for use in Western Colorado, necessary to support
future industry and expand agricultural pursuits in that part
. of the State. .

According to the Hill Report, 1/ the City and County of Denver
now states that it is the intention to finance the' construc-
tion of the works in its plan in the manner customarily fol-
Imied by municipalities making additions to water svstems.
If said information was' given Mr. Hill in good faith, then
Denver needs no assistance from this Board. The settlement of
Denver's claims should be left to the courts where the merits
of her claim is now under investigation.

It should be understood that the Colorado River Water Conser-
vation District does not oppose the Colorado River Storage.

!f Hill Repor~, Page 53.

Projects as originally planned or as subsequently modified to
redtlce the ?apacity of the Ctlrecanti Reservoir.

In the existing state of the investigation of water resources
originating in Wester Colorado (and we assert the Hill Re-
port is neither complete nor conclusive), the approval by
this Board of the D~nver claim for inclusion in the Colorado
River Storage constitutes a repudiation of the policy adopted
February 22, 1951, evidenced by a resolution of said date in
connection with the report of conference committee on the pro-
posed Frying Pan-Ark8Ilsas Diversion Project. V"

Undoubtedly this Board is fa'Jli.liar with this resolution and we beg
leave to submit this".

RESOLUTIONS

At the meeting of the ColoradO Water Conservation Board on Feb-
ruary 22, 1951, the follmiing action was taken, to wit:

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"Director Stone moved, seconded by John W. Beaty,
that the resolutions pertaining to the Fryingpan-
Arkansas Project, as presented by the Colorado River
Water Conservation District and the Southwestern
Water Conservation District, including amendatory
language as authorized by the spokesmen of the two
districts, be included and made a part of the record
of this February 22, 1951 meeting of the Colorado
Water Conservation Board."