BOARD01589

• Board Meeting Date: 1/11/1956
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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were completed on the Big Soap Park Dam site which
showed even better foundation rock than anticipated
considering that the foundation rock is volcanic
agglomerate. Field exploration for construction
materials for Big Soap Park was completed and some
progress on topographic surveys for the reservoir
site was made before the snow came. Completion of
the preliminary draft of the report is scheduled
for June 1957.

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4. Report on Parshall Project Meeting

MR. CRAWFORD: "At the meeting of November 29, 1955, the
Director was instructed to call a meeting
during the month of December on the Parshall
Project with representatives from the City
and County of Denver, the Mid-Park Conservancy
District, and the Colorado Conservation Dis-
trict. On December 16, 1955, such a meeting
was held. Those attending were:

Ivan C. Crawford, Director, Colorado Water
Conservation Board
Earl L. Mosley, Project Engineer, Denver
Board of Water Commissioners (until 10:30 a.m.)
F. C. Merriell, Colorado River Water
Conservation District, Grand Junction, Colo.
Philip Smith, Planning Engineer, Bureau of
Reclamation, Grand Junction, Colorado
J. R. Riter, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, Colo.
John B. Barnard, Attorney; Granby, Colorado
(beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Duane Barnard, Attorney, Granby, Colorado
(beginning at 10:30 a.m.)

The matter of the water supply for the
Parshall Project was discussed for a couple
of hours and the following tentative
suggestions were made:

(1)
Fork
flow
ment

Determine the capacity of the Williams
Reservoir on the basis of the return
that would be available after develop-
of Parshall Unit lands and after full

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