BOARD01412

• Board Meeting Date: 2/16/1953
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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,viII be approximately 2,800 persons employed there. The
Julius Hyman Company, also located there, has 700 employees. He
explained to the Board that they used process water and potable
water, both of which are obtained from the City and County of Denver,
and store their water in lakes which have a capacity of 500,000,000
gallons. The process water, he said, is circulated and when it is low,
potable water is obtained from Denver. Colonel Meetze stated that the
present average usage of process water is 2,000,000 gallons per day and
the anticipated usage is 3.5 million gallons per day; the present usage
of potable water is 3/4 of a million gallons a day and the anticipated
usage is 1.5 million gallons a day; the anticipated use during the next
six months is 5,000,000 gallons of water per day; and the higher
authorities have requested that there be available, in addition, 6 to
10 million gallons per day.

Mayor Ne1vton stated that this concluded the first phase of the
presentation and the next phase of the presentation would be from the
citizens and non-technical public officials.

At this point the Board recessed for five minutes, after which
the meeting reconvened and Vice-Chairman Bailey announced that the
Denver presentation would be continued.

Mayor Ne1vton called on Glenn Saunders, Attorney for the Denver
Water Board, to carry on with the balance of the presentation.

Mr. Saunders explained the history of the Denver transmountain
plan which was initiated on July 4, 1921. He stated that in 1935 it
was undertaken to set up a framework within which a pattern of
development could be made. At that time, he said, the Planning
Commission held a meeting ,dth prominent water people of the State and
the "Delaney resolution" was framed to fully protect the Western Slope.

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w~. Saunders explained that the project proposed by Denver is
not inconsistent with the proposed Blue-South Platte Project of the
Bureau of Reclamation but yet is quite different. The project Denver
has in mind, he stated, is a project to be built, owned and financed
by the people of Denver, with financial assistance from the Federal
Govern~ent in the form of interest-free money. He further explained
that Denver did not propose that the Denver project be included in the
ColoradO River Storage Project as a participating project in the sense
that term is used in t he Colorado River Storage Project Bill as it
would not be financed in the same way as the Bureau of Reclamation
projects are financed. Mr. Saunders stated that, with the approval of
the Board, it was hoped that a resolution could be drawn at once
approving Denver's continued grmvth in such a way and with such
assurances as to obtain the most harmonious relations between every