BOARD01352

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

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I made some 24 notes of changes that I
thought should be made, t-lell knot'ling that at
the late date at which I read this bill, they
couldn't be made in time for this meeting, but
with the hope that because in all legislation
it goes through many amendments that this I
Board and the other people in Colorado will
remain alert to the hearings on this bill and
the amendments which are offered in order that
we may perfect the bill during its passage
through Congress.

Hhen Representative Conklin talked about
the Grand Mesa and he said he was disappointed
in one thing that we had retreated from, he
didn't mention the one thing that I am most
disappointed about. That is, that we seem
unable to assure ourselves in some positive
terms of money for bringing in supplemental
water. This was a subject that gave us very
great concern and it gave Ed Johnson great
concern. I remember when he and I, working
at my desk on this problem, worked on this
very thing. We both became very ",ell pleased
at the idea that if tie could put some kind
of a guarantee in this bill of supplemental
water to prevent a demand at Lee Ferry on
the Upper Basin, we would indeed have pro-
tected the interests of the people of the
State of Colorado.

The resolution you have from the Board
of ~'later Commissioners of Denver looks at
this solely from the standpoint of that Board.
From that it should not be thought that the
Board is not interested in the welfare of
the entire state. There has never been a
project in western Colorado or eastern Colo-
rado that has not had the full support of not
only the Denver Water Department but the Denver
Chamber of Commerce and Denver businesses. I
can remember when we were going so hard for the
storage Project, the Chamber of Commerce made
its very high-powered chief executive, who
had spent years in Hushington, available

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