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<br />I <br /> <br />COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD MEEnNG MINUTES <br />Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge <br />Grand Junction, Colorado <br /> <br />May 1-2, 1975 <br /> <br />The Colorado Water Conservation Boar.d met, pursuant to notice, at <br />1:30 p.m., Benjamin F. Stapleton, Clmirman, presiding. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: We will call this regularly scheduled meeting of the <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board to order, and I would first like to <br />call Mr. Dave Crandall. Dave. <br /> <br />Mr. Crandall: Mr. Chairman, members of the Board, ladie s and gentlemen, <br />I've asked for a few moments to reflect Reclamation and its relation- <br />ships to Western Colorado and reminisce. It is for a purpose which I <br />hope you'll agree will be worth the time. In any case, thank you for <br />your indulgence. <br /> <br />When I joined the Bureau's Region 4, now Upper Colorado Re~ion, much <br />had been accomplished in the preceeding 63 years. Uncompahgre, Collbran, <br />Florida, Mancos, Smith Fork and Paonia had been constructed, to name <br />just a few. The CRSP had been authorized and the main stem units were <br />about finished. During the almost ten years since, Blue Mesa was <br />finished, Morrow Point built, and Crystal begun. Bostwick Park is <br />about finished. Five large water development projects have been autho- <br />rized, a salinity program identified and moving along, operating <br />criteria developed. Seven advance planning programs have been pushed <br />forward and many reconnaissance and feasibility programs undertaken. <br />Reclamation planning and operating capability have been consolidated <br />and strengthened. Energy and the environment have emerged and ascended. <br />This is not the whole inventory, just a few highlights for the ten <br />years. <br /> <br />In a month or a year progress may seem nonexistent or immeasurably slow, <br />a factor your executive director and most everyone else often reminds <br />me of. But measured over a decade, the achievements merit at least a <br />tinge of satisfaction. <br /> <br />Now it would be nice to bask in the glow from this impressive assembly <br />of accomplishment, but honesty and conscience are overriding and I <br />cannot truly do so. Reclamation is a program and bureaucrats come and <br />go. It is an organization to plan, design, construct and sometimes <br />operate water development for many purposes. It is a contractor which <br />helps arrange the financing, keeps the books, and gives technical con- <br />sul ting service. <br /> <br />Whether needs are fulfilled or development goals achieved in truth <br />depends on the people who wish the resources put to use. They identify <br />the goals, put us to work, support the effort, usually operate the <br />finished product, and pay the bill one way or another, mostly through <br />water and power revenues. <br /> <br />Maybe we are a cutting edge of the tools which are used. If so, Felix <br /> <br />I <br />