BOARD01321

• Board Meeting Date: 3/7/1961
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. BARRETT:

That's about all I have to report on the
status of investigations on this side of the
mountains."

"Mr. Barrett could you - I'm not acquainted
at all with the Cache la poudre unit - explain
a little more about it? This is the first
time it has been mentioned for a considerable
time in my memory."

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"In the South Platte Basin report which
was issued last fall, there was one plan for
the Cache la poudre Basin which envisioned a
reservoir high up at the Idlewild site. The
water was to be initially collected there and
passed through a power system for final stor-
age on the North Fork of the Cache la Poudre.
Now whether that will eventually prove feasi-
ble or not, whether that will meet the re-
quirements of the area or not, we do not know
at the present time. We put that out as a
possible plan with the knowledge and under-
standing that it would be subject to consider-
able revision as we went ahead.

The water users, particularly Fort Col-
lins, have made studies and have had some work
done on a smaller upstream reservoir which
could possibly fit into the picture. We don't
know at this time. But they are definitely
interested in conserving the water supply of
the Cache la Poudre. There are two possibil-
ities there. As I say, there is quite an
opportunity for evaporation saving by consoli-
dation of storage, and there is some flood
flows - unappropriated flows - which get by
now although they are quite small. There are
several factors that come into it and both
Fort Collins and Greeley are in need now; Fort
Collins of increased storage for municipal
purposes; and Creeley, as I understand it, in
rehabilitation of some storage sites they now
have. Those also will be taken into consider-
ation in a consolidated plan.

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We feel that there is unity in the Cache
la Poudre Basin, at least to the extent that