BOARD01845

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

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NO'" THl?....REFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board, the official state agency' which is
charged by law with the duty and responsibility of pro-
moting the conservation of the waters' of the State of Colo-
rado in order to secure the greatest utilization of such
waters and the utmost prevention of floods 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 instruments
constituting the law of the river shall be put to bene-
ficial consumptive use in Colorado as expeditiously as'
orderly economic development will permit.

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2. Because of Lee Ferry delivery obligations imposed
by the Colorado River Compact of 1922, substantial quantities
of regulatory hold-over storage must be provided in the
Upper Basin if that basin is to be able to put to beneficial
consumptive use its allotted share of Colorado River water.

3. The Colorado River Storage Project will provide
such necessary storage and is essential to the full economic
development of the water. resources of the Upper Basin.

4. The plan of the Colorado River Storage Project to
finance the construction of the necessary hold-over re-
servoirs through the revenues derived from the sale of
power generated at hydroelectric plants and to utilize a
portion of such revenues to assist in the financing of so-
called participating. projects which meet certain fixed
criteria is approved.

5. In connection with the Glen Canyon reservoir
Colorado directs attention to the fact that this reservoir,
which is located but a short distance above Lee Ferry, will
yield substantial benefits to the Lower Basin, one of the
most important of which is the detention of silt and the
resulting prolongation "in the useful life of Lake Mead. The
official representatives of Colorado should strive to obtain
some recognition by the Lower Basin of these benefits and,
if pOSSible, a sharing by the Lower Basin of such matters
as reservoir losses.

6. The Echo Park unit is a desirable feature which
has the full support of Colorado.

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7. Authorizing legislation should contain appropriate
provisions for the recapture for use within the Upper Basin
of power generated by the Colorado River Storage Project when
and if any of such power is sold or transmitted for use within
the Lower Basin.

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