BOARD01955

• Board Meeting Date: 3/21/1973
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

And there is more to come. I would like to leave this with you and
also at this time ~tr. Kinkade would like to give you a copy of the
-statement.

Mr. Kinkade: I am Jack Kinkade of the Dolores Water Conservancy Dis-
trict Board with offices at Cortez, Colorado. I am pleased to have
the opportunity to address myself to the continuation of planning
and construction of the Dolores project.

I

As you members of the Colorado Water Conservation Board are aware, the
Dolores project has been in some form of planning or other since the
early 1940's. In essence, the Dolores project is a supplement to
and a continuation of an irrigation project that was conceived in
1885. The Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company is the entity that
presently supplies water for some 33,000 acres of land in our area
for municipal, recreation, and irrigation purposes. In our plan of
development we propose to broaden the scope, improve and enlarge the
system which will encompass a two-county area in southwestern Colo-
rado.

The Dolores project has many features that will make it an outstanding
reclamation project. The Dolores Water Conservancy Board with help
and assistance from the Colorado Water Conservation Board, the South-
western Water Conservation District, and the U. S. Bureau of Recla-
mation has studied the needs, requirements and social impact of the
Dolores project.

High on our project's priority list is further development of a
municipal, domestic and industrial water use proposal to be incor-
porated into the Dolores project. We have recently received a review
draft of a study prepared by Morcan Engineering Company that reflects
feasibility for a municipal, domestic and industrial development
plan that will in all probability be incorporated into the definite
plan report of the project.

The highlight of this study will provide for additional municipal
water supplies for the cities of Cortez, Dove Creek and Dolores. In
addition, the villages of Cahone, Pleasant View and the Ute Mountain
Ute Tribal Center of Towaoc will receive water from the project.

Of high priority and great importance is the necessity to remedy the I
need of water for the Ute Mountain Ute tribe of Indians, which I
previously mentioned when discussing municipal water for Towaoc,
Colorado. The Dolores project, as presently being planned, has made

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