BOARD01352

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

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MR. STAPLETON:

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Some of this water which would otherwise
be lost to Colorado could be used for ground
water recharge in such areas as prospect
valley, the Boxelder, and the Kiowa-Bijou
area.

The west and the east slope must compose
their differences for their own mutual good.
The east slope, which has 80 percent of the
state's people, cannot permit waste of
Colorado's water 'down the river'. The in-
clusion of an inventory of all western slope
projects in the proposed bill and the exclu-
sion of any east slope projects of long stand-
ing, well investigated and recommended
transmountain diversion projects cannot be
accepted by eastern slope interests. So
the water we are talking about is not water
of the City and County of Denver; it is water
over and above the water which is Denver's
by reason of the Blue River decree, its filings,
decrees, stipulations, and agreements.

If Colorado adopts any other course than
use for transmountain diversions as well as
the full development of all feasible projects
on the western slope, much of our water will
eventually be lost to the state.

The interests which I represent have
always supported every feasible use on the
western slope. Their position has not changed.
We have just as positively supported trans-
mountain diversions for all water that cannot
be feasibly used on the western slope.

It is our view the eastern slope has no
alternative but to insist upon inclusion in
this bill of transmountain diversion."

"Thank you, Mr. Miller.

I'd like to call as the next speaker,
Representative Charles conklin, former Speaker
of the House of Representatives and former law