BOARD01700

• Board Meeting Date: 9/22/1961
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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and from there we'll move up the Colorado and
into the White-Yampa Basin.

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Curecanti Reservoir is a continuing study
to utilize waters of Curecanti Reservoir and
Taylor Park, etc. That is a fixed amount that
we have agreed on already with the Bureau of
Reclamation. $12,500 we have already furnished.
The Bureau of Reclamation will put up $25,000
on that study.

And as a contingency we have $20,000, in
round numbers. Actually, we feel that per-
haps it will not be as necessary in the future
to furnish as much project investigation
money because we have projects now rolling
along at a very rapid rate. The Dolores is
coming up sometime this winter to be followed
shortly by the San Miguel, Dallas Creek and
West Divide. 80 we are building up a tre-
mendous backlog of projects. We do not feel
that it is going to be necessary for as much
contribution directly to the Bureau of Recla-
mation in the future although there are many
associated problems with all of these projects
that will take money to solve.

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The ground water budget remains the same.
We have accelerated that progra~ and are now
moving into the South Platte Valley as a part
of our continuing ground water program. Last
year we furnished $100,000 to the united States
Geological Survey and a like amount has been
requested for this year. There is a great
demand, by the way, for the information which
is being turned out and published by the United
States Geological Survey under this program.
Hardly a day goes by that we do not receive
requests for the information which has been
published to date on our ground water resources.

Our gaging program is identical with last
year although we have dropped out some five
stations and picked up five new stations.
This program will gradually decline. As the
projects come into existence, of course, then
we will drop off the gaging stations. We are