BOARD01845

• Board Meeting Date: 1/14/1954
• Description: Table of Contents, Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Afternoon Session

Meeting called to order at 3:00 P.M.

Mr. Bailey: "Prior to our recess we asked Mr. Breitenstein to pre-
pare his ideas of instructions that the Board might want to give him".

Mr. Breitenstein: "I have endeavored to cover a number of matters
which, in my opinion, have entirely been over-looked and I think
that before any of you make up your minds on it you should listen to
it in its entirety as I read it and then take it up paragraph by
paragraph".

Mr. Breitenstein reads resolution:

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WHEREAS, the Colorado Water Conservation Board has given
consideration to the Report of the Secretary of the Interior,
dated December 22, 1950, on the Colorado River Storage Project
and Participating Projects, ~,d to the Supplemental Report,
dated December 10, 1953, of the Secretary of the Interior on
the same subject, and

~llEREAS, the Board in a n endeavor to ascertain the atti-
tude of all interested areas and citizens of the State of
Colorado in regard to the position which Colorado should take
on such reports did at .its February 17, 1953 meeting create
the Colorado Conference Committee to study the use of Colorado
River water in Colorado and particularly the proposed' trans-
mountain diversion by Denver from the Blue River, and

WHEREAS, the General Assembly made available to the Board
an appropriation of $100,000.00 to finance such study and with
the funds so made available the engineering firm of Leeds,
Hill and Jewett waS employed to make a study of the depletion
of surface water supplies west of the Continental Divide and
did also arrange for a report from the University of Colorado
on the economic potential of \'restern Colorado, and

WHEREAS, such report:s have been made and the Conference
Committee has reported.to the Board, and

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\VHEREAS, in a further effort to reconcile conflicting
views as to t he use of Colorado River water vlithout the natural
basin in Colorado the Board did on December 30, 1953, appoint
a Mediation Committee which has this day reported that it
could come to no ~reement.

Norr, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Con-
servation Board, the official state agency which is charged
by law with the duty and responsibility of promoting the con-
servation of the waters of the State of Colorado in order to
secure the greatest utilization of such waters and the utmost
prevention of fioods that:

1. It is the position of the State of Colorado that
all waters of the Colorado River system available for
use in the State of Colorado under the various instru-
ments constituting the law of the river shall be put to