BOARD01321

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

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irrigation projects utilizing Ruedi Reser-
voir. Grand Mesa is another cooperative
project with the Bureau of Reclamation and
the Overland Reservoir Company has now indi-
cated that they would like to have their
portion of the area come in as a Federal proj-
ect. That was originally contemplated as part
of the Paonia Project and every ,attention will
be given to the rapid inclusion of that area
into a project of some sort.

Parshall, you will note, is new. This
is one of the new projects that we are start-
ing on, on the 1st of July. We have only a
reconnaissance report on the Parshall and
that is an area in which there is some con-
flict with the City and County of Denver in
connection with its Williams Fork Reservoir.
So the plans must be reevaluated to see if
that project can be fitted in in connection
with the new developments that have occurred
in that area. That is in the jurisdiction
of the Middle Park Conservancy District.

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The Upper Gunnison Basin, as you know,
is a survey in connection with the operation
of the Curecanti Reservoir and related prob-
lems attending it. There is only a small sum
in the budget for the Animas-La Plata. That
is virtually completed, the feasibility re-
port, and will be completed as scheduled,
that is, by the 1st of July of this year.
Dallas Creek is well along now and it will
only be another two years, I believe, until
that is ready to go also, the feasibility
report. Dolores is coming to a conclusion
this summer. That is a project of consider-
able magnitude and it will be completed, or
essentially completed - the feasibility re-
port - this summer. Mr. Eakes has already
reported that those people are forming a
conservancy district in that area. The San
Miguel, you will notice, is receiving great
acceleration. As we are dropping off the
other projects in southwestern Colorado, we
are now able to accelerate the San Miguel to