BOARD01412

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

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Mr. Delaney then called on Judge Hume S. White to give his views
on the matter.

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Judge White stated that Mr. Delaney had covered the matter
thoroughly and that he believes the Board has a firm commitment that no
further federally financed transmmlntain diversion projects be built until
the investigations on the Western Slope are completed.

Mr. Delaney called on R. M. Williams, Secretary of the
Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce, to report on a meeting held in
Grand Junction vdth delegates from the Denver Chamber o~ Commerce.

Mr. Williams, who was.President of the Grand Junction Chamber
of Commerce at the time, stated that at the meeting, held August 9, 1950,
it was agreed that Denver appreciated the position of the Western Slope
and that no action would be taken until the Western Slope position had
been proven.

Mr. Delaney called on H. R. Holliday of the Delta County Water
Advisory Board to present the resolution.which has been adopted by several
Western Slope organizations.

Mr. Holliday read the resolution, approved by the Gunnison
County Chamber of Commerce, Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce, Montrose
County Water Advisory Board and Delta County Water Advisory Board, as
follows:

A RESOLUTION

WHEREAS: We have been advised of the City and
County of Denver's proposal requesting that a project for the
diversion of municipal and industrial water from the Blue River
be made a participating project of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation's
Upper Colorado River Yater Storage Project, and

WHEREAS: The members of t he Colorado '{rater Conservation
Board have heretofore by unanimous agreement solemnly resolved and
approved the Fryingpan-Arkansas Diversion of water from ',7estern.;
Colorado to Eastern Colorado, upon the expressed-condition and
covenant that no additional federally financed trans-mountain
diversion projects shall be approved by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board unless and until surveys are completed of the
waters and needs of Western Colorado and

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