BOARD01178

• Board Meeting Date: 2/4/1955
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. PUGHE:
MR. ROBERTS:

MR. PUGHE:
MR. ROBERTS:
MR. MOSES:

MR. ROBERTS:

MR. WHITTEN:

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MR. ROBERTS:

505

"Wyoming sits in between them?"

"In between. That is my basis for believing
that the position of Colorado could not be
made less favorable than it now is because
Colorado is presently getting, for the
Skyline plus Laramie-Poudre, only substantially
the amount of water that was decreed for the
Skyline alone."

"How much was that?"

"18,000 acre-feet."

"Do you have substantial evidence of the
return flow of the meadowland diversion?"

"At t~e last meeting of the Board, which you
did not attend, I reviewed briefly the ex-
periments that Mr. Whitten conducted last
fall which measured return flow very care-
fully under probably minimum conditions of
return flow because of the extreme dryness
of the year. He secured the result of 8~o
return flow from the headgate diversion.
My own feeling is that under normal conditions,
the figure would be nearer 9~o, but the 85%
return flow was demonstrated by actual
measurements at test points under conditions
of minimum soil 'saturation. Is not this
the case, Mr. Whitten?"

"That is correct, Mr. Roberts. We expect,
if it appears to be desirable, to further
continue those studies in selected reaches
along the river where accurate results can
be expected, to further substantiate that
point."

"I might say another thing those experiments
demonstrate is that under the present method
of computing diversion to the meadowlands in
Colorado, the same water is being measured
two, three and four times; it was demonstrated
that the stream could be dried up completely
at the headgate and the return flow was the
very thing that came through the headgate and
was charged to Colorado. It can be proved