BOARD01574

• Board Meeting Date: 3/11/1981
• Description: CWCB Meeting
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Water for Colorado, thc Narrows was in morc immincnt danger

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of being deauthorized than were other Colorado projects.

There being no further discussion of the Narrows project,

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Mr. Kroeger called upon Mr. J. R. Rinckel, Manager, Grand

Junction Project Office, Upper Colorado Region, U.S. Water

and Power Resources ServIce, Grand Junction, Colorado, to

speak to the President's appropriation requests for projects

in the Yampa, White, Colorado, and Gunnison River basins.

Mr. Rinckel briefly touched on the status of projects in the

areas of hIs jurisdictIon, both with respect to those still

under planning as well as those under construction. He noted

in particular that the PresIdent's appropriation request for

Federal FY 1981 included $6.972 million dollars for

continuIng construction on the Dallas Creek project and

$46.586 million dollars for continuing construction on the

Dolores project. With respect to the West Divide project,

which is in the advance planning process, Mr. Rinckel noted

that thc Service was unable to identify a plan with a

favorable cost/benefit ratio and that, because there are

diFfering opinions about the congressional authorization of

the West Divide project, the Service had notified Congress of

the results of its investigations. At the conclusion of Mr.

Rinckel's remarks an outline of which is attached (see

Appendix H), he responded to a few questions from the Board.

Mr. Kroeger then called upon Mr. Carl Bernklau,

President of the West Divide Water Conservancy District.

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