BOARD01250

• Board Meeting Date: 12/9/1964
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. SPARKS:

MR. GEISSINGER:

MR. SAUNDERS:

ideas that Mr. Sparks has which are not
adequately, I think, expressed in this language.

Any statement adopted by this Board is
going to look very Official to outsiders.
Here we have outsiders, as recently as within
this week, stating that Colorado is short of
water at Lee Ferry - the Upper Basin. We
have the Kansas Compact Commissioners to con-
cern ourselves with. Therefore, the language
employed should be very carefully pruned before
it becomes the official statement of this Board.

I

I think this morning we were in agreement,
Larry, that our ideas are alike but that perhaps
the wording needs a little polish."

"That observation is entirely correct.
In this. letter we are not attempting to write
legislation. We are trying to enunciate some
principles. Actually, I think it could be
considered that this has always been the case,
this declaration of public ownership of all
waters. But at least there is now some doubt
in some peoples' minds as to whether or not
we can regulate ground water. If we can't
regulate it, then the constitutional provision
has been destroyed by inaction on the part
of the state government.

What Mr. Saunders has to say is entirely
correct. This is not really a new declara-
tion, but is a declaration of what we consider
to be the meaning of the constitutional enact-
ment in the first instance."

"lid like to ask this question, Mr. Sparksi
and also direct it to Mr. Saunders. I'm sure
what you have in mind, Glenn, is something
that we have all been aware of for at least
since 1906. I am sure you are referring to
the doctrine of equitable apportionment with
reference to interstate waters. Is that
correct?"

I

"The thing that has concerned me is that
this Board would be asked to officially adopt