BOARD01362

• Board Meeting Date: 6/22/1945
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

L. Ward Bannister, the other newly appointed member or the Colo-
rado Water Conservation Board to represent the City and County of Denver
under an Act of the last General Assembly, was unable to be present and
qualify at this meeting.

It was moved by Judge John B. O'Rourke and seconded by EI
Roy Nelson that the following resolution be adopted:

WHEREAS, L. Ward Bannister, recently appointed member of
the Colorado Water Conservation Board, has suffered the loss of
his son, Wayne Bannister, Who died while engaged in the service
of his count~J in the armed services of the United States;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Con-
servation Board that there be spread upon the minutes of the
Board the recognition of the services of Wayne Bannister, who
was one of Colorado's outstanding young lawyers, in the servioe
of his country during the World War struggle; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that there be extended to the be-
reaved parents, L. Ward Bannister and his wife, the sumpathy of
the Board in this time of bereavement: and that a copy of this
resolution be forvmrded to them.

Upon vote being taken the above resolution was unanimously
passed.

The minutes of the meeting or the Board held on March 26, 27, and
28, 1945, copies of whioh had previously been furnished to all members of
the Board, were reviewed andupon vote being taken were approved.

Director Stone called the Board's attention to the passage by the
last General Assembly of a bill providing for the appropriation of $25,000
to match a like sum to be expended by the U. S. Geological Survey, for the
purpose of entering upon an investigation and study of the underground wa-
ter resources of the State of Colorado; and he explained that it would be
necessary to enter into a cooperative contract with the U. S. Geological
Survey to carry out such an investigation. He thereupon submitted a form
of contract for the consideration and approval of the Board.

It was explained that S. W. Lohman had been assigned by the U. S.
Geological SUrvey to have charge of this underground water investigation;
and it was pointed out that a meeting had been held with various parties
interested in such a survey and investigation. As a result of such meet-
ing it was recommended to the Board that an intensive investigation should
first be undertaken in the San Luis Valley and in the basin of the Big Sandy,
a tributary of the Arkansas River; and that preliminary work also should be
attempted in other sections of the State with later arrangement for inten-
sive surveys in other areas of the State. Discussion of the investigation
continued until 11:55 a.m. when the Board recessed to reconvene at 2:00 p.m.