BOARD01598

• Board Meeting Date: 9/27/1946
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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for oonveying the water from a point, where it would be delivered under
the Bureau's plans, into the City and for distributing it to domestio water
users. It also appears that before the Federal Works Administration will aot
upon the request of Grand Junotion for funds, it is neoessary for the
appropriate water agenoy of the State to oertify that the projeot fits into
and is a part of the State-wide water development program.

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Silmon .Smith, a member of the Board, explained that there had been
several meetings in Grand Junotion where water users of Plateau Valley had
been invited. The plans for the multiple use Collbran projeot had been
fully disoussed and he had never heard any oomplaint to suoh plan by the
water users in the Plateau Valley. He also stated that he believed the re-
vised plans provided a means of making a feasible projeot out of what other-
wise would not be a feasible one.

Thereupon it was moved by Mr. Smith and seoonded by
Mr. Dille that the Colorado Water Conservation BQard approve
the further study and investigation of the multiple use Collbran
projeot and that such project be oonsidered to be within and
a part of the water use oomprehensive plan of development of
the State of Colorado.

Upon vote taken .the motion was unanimously passed and
deolared adopted.

Mr. Breitenstein, Attorney for the Board, was oalled upon to make
a report respeoting the aotivities of the oommittee, heretofore appointed
py the Board to take the neoessary steps to oomply with the deoree.of the
Supreme Court of the United States in the North Platte Case (Nebraska T..
Wyoming and Colorado. United States.. Intervenor). He exple. ined what had
been done by the oommittee and reoommended that the oommittee be oontinued
and prepare a report setting out a method to be followed by the. State in
order to oomply with the Supreme Court deoree. He stated that there should
be a statement by reservoirs. of the storage and a statement of the daily
reoord of transmountain diversions. All suoh material should be.made
available to the State Engineer's offioe. the Colorado Water Conservation
Board and at some appropriate offioe at Jaokson County.

Thereupon it was moved by Mr. Dille and seoonded by
Mr. Bannister that the oommittee heretofore appointed to
provide for oomplianoe by the State of Colorado with the United
State5 Supreme Court deoree in the North Platte oaSe be oontinued
and instruoted to oarry out its work in aooordanoe with the
reoommendations made by Mr. Breitenstein.

Upon vote being taken the motion was unanimously
oarried and deolared adopted.

Mr. Henry C. Vidal, Chairman of the Colorado Compaot Commission for
the Arkansas River. was oalled upon to make a report oonoerning the status
of oompaot negotiations on the Arkansas River between Colorado and Kansas.
He stated that he had transoripts of the meetings of all Compaot Commission
meetings and he would briefly summarize their oontents. He stated that a
meeting had been held in Denver on the 1st and 2nd of July 1946 at whioh
time the method' of prooedure had been changed. Charles L. Patterson had been
offioially made Seoretary of the joint Commission of the two states.