BOARD01737

• Board Meeting Date: 6/26/1955
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR.' BAILEY:

were approved.

. MR. CRAWFORD:

state line based upon the amount of
water flowingpastcertain so-called index
stations" and strike the next to the
last sentence which reads "There would
be no obligation on the part of Colorado
to deliver any fixed amount." On page
35, strike the sentence attributed to
Mr. Tipton. Page 37 change Mr Tipton's
statement to read "The low place in
the Divide which separates the live area
from the closed basin is at elevation
7537. The low place in the sump proper
is at 7510, and the normal level of San
Luis Lake is 7525. In other words, the
water level of San Luis Lake is about
12 feet below the low place on the Divide";
on page 39 strike the second sentence_
.attributed to Mr. Tipton beginning
with "I think that in order to protect
them. . ." and strike the last sentence
of his statement which reads "As Mr.
Sweet mentioned you could use the
equivalent of, say, 40,000 acre-feet";
in Mr. Tipton's last statement on page 39
change the second and third sentences to
read "In-1925 we were able to get a
decree with priority No.1, as an original
source of supply, for the water which
was produced by the Rio Grande drain in
the closed basin. The Court concluded:
that none of the water produced by the
drain would have reached the river without
the drain"; . strike the last word "area" in
the last statement of Mr. Tipton on page 39."

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"If there are no objections to the
corrections being made, they will stand as
approved."

There being no objections, the corrections

. Report on Curecanti Situation

"At the last meeting the Director was
instructed to get in touch with the Secretary
of the Interior to see if the Curecanti .
Project could be studied. Shortly after
that I received a report from Mr. Larson --
a report which he had written to Mr.
Dexheimer and which is ncl yet public. I
asked Mr. Bennett if the report had been
studied and if that had been sufficient for
the Secretary to act on. His answer to both
questions was "No." I reminded him that I
knew of other reports which had been acted

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