BOARD01477

• Board Meeting Date: 2/5/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

I think we could use the'Adyisory Com-
mittee to a greater extent in helping set
up this commission that has been suggested
so far, becau~e in the background of that
organization We have just about such a thing
as we talked about years ago. I think Mr.
Young and Sid and those guys realize that.
We had a real good setup for choosing water
people. It had to do with being sure that
you were doing the right thing in getting
the water users of that particular district
in this thing. In other words, I don't think
we people on the western slope would like to
have a commission come over there that was
really chosen in Denver. I don't have any-
thing against Denver people but they would
be lost. They wouldn't know wha~ we were
doing and vice versa. I wouldn't want to go
over on the eastern slope and tell Herb's
people what to do over there because I am
sure I wouldn't know. So I think those things
need to be considered, Larry.

I think there is one thing I noticed
here that probably could be clarified or
could be changed. It is on page 4, I believe,
in line (9), 'Change of water right means a
change in the type or place of use, a change
from a decreed point or points of diversion
or storage to a new, alternate or supple-
mental point or points of diversion or
storage; a change in the means of diversion;
a change from direct flow to storage; a
change from storage to direct flow; or any
combination of such changes'. Any time you
allow certain storage procedures, if the
water is never released and just sets there,
it is lost to the rest of the people of the
State of Colorado and serves maybe one seg-
ment of the people. So I think you have to
watch that thing a little. That might need
a little clarification.

Then I have another thing or two here,
Larry. On page 7, line (f), 'The annual

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