BOARD01502

• Board Meeting Date: 4/22/1948
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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schedule for 1948 and 1949 in the San Luis Valley.

The Board adjourne~ to convene at 9:30 a. m., Saturday, April 24.

MORNING SESSION
Saturday, April 24, 1948.

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The Board was called to order by Vice Chairman Bailey at 9:30 a.m.

A statenent and request submitted by the Meadow land Water Users
(Laramie River) was presented. It reads as follows:

Colorado Water Conservation Bo~
State Ofrice Building
Denver, Colorado

Gentlemen:

You are advised that the Upper Big Laramie.River Water Users'
Association and the undersigned users of water diverted from the
Laramie Riveli' in Colorado, for the purpose of guiding your Board
and the responsible officials of the state of Colorado in any
. negotiations which may be undertaken with the State of Wyoming to
secure modifications of the decrees of the United States Supreme
Court in the Laranie River litigation between the States of Wyoming
and Colorado, do subscribe to and hereby adopt the principles here-
after stated and do assure you that any agreement made in accordance
with such principles will be approved and accepted by them:

1. In order that there may be an orderly distribution
of water in Colorado pending the proposed negotiations and
that the negotiators may not be embarrassed by law suits
or threatened law suits during such negotiations the Colorado
share of the Laramie River water may be distributed in
accordance with the Proposal and Agreement, signed by the
Meadowland Users on March 14, 1942 and by the Transmountain
Diversionists on March 25, 1942.

2. Negotiations should go forward as expeditiously as
possible to secure modifications of the United States Supreme
Court decrees.

3. The Association and the undersigned individuals will
cooperate and assist in such negotiations.

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4. ~ such negotiations Colorado should endeavor to se-
cure the maximum amount of water possible for diversion and
use within the basin of the Laranie River in Colorado.

5. The transmountain exportation of waterjinCColorado
from the Laramie Basin to the Poudre Basin may be limited to
19,875 acre-feet of water per annum. The proposed deal with
Wyoming calls for a 50-50 Division of Colorado's 39,750 acre
feet of water between the Meadowland Ranchers and the transmountai. n