Laserfiche WebLink
<br />1~~0 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Board members will understand that that <br />is exactly correct. The mass of work re- <br />quired to complete this report is stagger- <br />ing. The farther you get into it the more <br />you realize that we, up to this point, have <br />merely scratched the surface more or less. <br />I think one thing should be clarified in <br />the minds of the Board and that is the fact <br />that the Water Investigation Commission, <br />which was set up by the Water Board at the <br />request of the Water Congress, does not at <br />all consider the problem of the Colorado <br />River to be the only water problem which <br />Colorado faces. The Commission, of course, <br />is entirely aware of the importance and the <br />critical nature of the matters involved in <br />the Rio Grande for example. On the other <br />side of the picture, the controversy which <br />is raging over the Colorado River is now <br />approaching the point where it is coming <br />to a head shortly. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />As I attempted to explain in the at- <br />tending letter, this preliminary report was <br />gotten up for the primary purpose of pre~ <br />senting the information that we have up to <br />this time. We apprehend that Colorado's <br />position must be made as definite and clari- <br />fied as much as possible at this time because <br />of two facts. Our state, officials, meaning <br />particularly the Director of the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board and the Governor of <br />Colorado, and their advisors, can expect, in <br />our opinion, very shortly to be called upon <br />to enter into conferences and conversations <br />with other basin states, similar to those <br />which were held in the last part of 1957. <br />At the time of those conferences, our people <br />were handicapped by the fact that they did <br />not have essential foundation information, <br />as much as could be obtained. The report <br />was submitted to avoid the same thing hap- <br />pening again. Then in the second place, it <br />is probable - I think perhaps inevitable - <br />that there will be hearings before congres- <br />sional committees having to do, perhaps, <br />with appropriations for the construction of <br />Glen Canyon Reservoir at which hearings the <br />subject of the availability of, and the <br />amount of water necessary to fill Glen Can- <br />yon Reservoir within a reasonable period of <br />time will be of extreme importance. <br />