BOARD01601

• Board Meeting Date: 7/6/1962
• Description: Meeting and resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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One of the outstanding jobs that was done,
I think, was working on the San Juan-Chama.
This Water Board now has the facilities and
the people and the machinery to carry out their
obligations. We're spending a great amount of
money on water development in this State, I
believe five or six times what we used to spend
and we are probably going to have to augment
State contributions to the staff, not only our
own staff, I think, in the future, but the Upper
Colorado River Commission is going to have to
have some additional help and I think the Upper
Basin States would do well to consider the fact
that we do need additional staff in the Upper
Colorado River Commission, and we ought to set
about getting it. The objective manner in which
we handled the San Juan-Charna Project, which
clearly indicated it would not and did not in-
terfere with the Animas-La Plata and some of the
other projects that we are very intere~ted in,
I think was one of the contributing factors to
the great 'cooperation that we got from New
Mexico because with Clinton Anderson heading
up the Senate Committee, we have to get these
things through two Houses, and when we deal with
them objectively and fairly and stay with the
facts as they are produced by the technical
staff, then everyone is satisfied that the
matter is handled objectively.

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We got great cooperation not only from
Senator Anderson but from the members of Con-
gress from New Mexico. They shared with us
many of their experiences in having passed the
San Juan-Chama; laid out areas where we might
have difficulty and where we could seek to over-
come those areas; and all this, I think, was
brought about because of the cooperative atti-
tude and the great job that the staff has done.

So when you can parlay a modest investment of
something over a half million dollars into a
$171 million project - into one that is going
to exceed in this area a hundred million dollars
- and when you realize what that's going to do
to our economy - just the construction aspects