BOARD01352

• Board Meeting Date: 2/1/1966
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

of each project, the exact amount of tha water
supply or its source and application.

It is my considered opinion that the
western slope cannot use all of Colorado's
share of the Colorado River. Denver, the
Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District,
the southeastern Colorado Water conservancy
District, the Central Colorado Water Conser-
vancy District, and other cities, mutual ditch
companies and newly organized privately o~med
corporations propose additional diversions.
It seems to me that all of these must be
considered. Denver has decrees, final and
conditional, on some 450,000 acre-feet of
water for additional transmountain diversion.
Immediate diversion of this water through the
recently completed Roberts Tunnel and Dillon
Reservoir would add millions of dollars to
Colorado's gross product in the year 1966
alone. This water cannot be used by anyone
on the western slope. It is inconceivable
that Colorado would 'give' this water to
California and the Lower Basin.

Arrangements should be made to bring
over immediately all water to which the City
of Denver has decrees and on which the Central
Colorado Water Conservancy District has filings.
This can be done by cooperation between the
City of Denver, the Colorado River Water Con-
servation District and the Central Colorado
Water Conservancy District. A reasonable
charge for the use of Denver's facilities
would ease the burden to Denver's taxpayers
or to its water customers. The charge should
be within the ability of the irrigators to
repay.

Uses of this water which will otherwise
be lost to Colorado will produce millions of
dollars to the irrigation users, ta;c money
for the state and a healthier business climate
for all of us.

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