BOARD02033

• Board Meeting Date: 5/8/1963
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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'Geology and Ground-Water Resources in
Eastern Cheyenne and Kiowa Counties, colorado'
has been OK'd for release to the open file.
This report will be published as a Survey Water-
Supply Paper. The corrections to the manuscript
should be completed by May 15th.

'Potential Ground-water Development in the
Northern Part of the Colorado High Plains' was
approved to release on the open file on April 2
and will be published here in Denver by the GPO
as Colorado Ground-Water Circular 8. The publi-
cation should be released sometime the middle of
next month.

'Public Water-Supply Problems and Possibili-
ties for Artificial Recharge in Colorado' has
been approved for release to the open file. It
is planned for publication as a Circular by the
C.S.U. and will be published as soon as the
funds are available for publication.

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During the last session of the Legislature
the State Department of Health had requested a
cooperative program with our Quality of Water
Branch in collecting information on water quality
in the state. The proposal which they asked us
to make was primarily for the South Platte and
the Arkansas Basins as a starter with the expec-
tation that in future years it would be expanded
to cover the whole state. The program that was
worked out on a cooperative basis was our typical
50-50 proposition whereby the state would put up
half the money and the federal government half.
Unfortunately the State Legislature didn't see
fit to appropriate money for new starts on things
of this nature so that program fell through for
this year. However, as I understand it, the
State Department of Health does expect to request
funds in subsequent fiscal years.

A new gaging station was established on
the Gunnison River immediately below Blue Mesa
Dam at the request of Region 4 of the Bureau of
Reclamation who will pay the cost of the installa-
tion and operation. This station was needed in