BOARD02033

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

MR. STAPLETON:

REP. GOSSARD:

MR. STAPLETON:

REP. GOSSARD:

. MR. KUIPER:

body of water in California. To us it appears
that telling the Mexicans you have to take this
highly saline body of water which interests in
the United States virtually ruined in the 1930's,
as a part of their Treaty obligation, would be I
no more out of line than to say that if the
State of California wanted to make a fresh water
body out of the Salton Sea: to say 'We're going
to pump the Salton Sea back and dump it into the
Colorado River above Morelos Dam and say to the
Republic of Mexico you must accept this in ful-
fillment of the Treaty obligations because this
is return flow from the Colorado River'. And
it is that, it is return flows from the Colo-
rado River from irrigation in the Imperial and
Coachella Valleys in California. So water comes
from the same source: strangely enough it has
accumulated over about the same period of time
and it has a little higher salinity than the
water that's underground in the Wellton-Mohawk
Project area.

We would suggest these points as a solu-
tion. perhaps I should read this whole thing
now. II

"Before you go into that, Mr. KUiper, I'd
like to introduce Representative Bill Gossard
from Craig, Steamboat Springs, etc. Bill, nice
to have you wi th us."

"Thank you, Ben. It's good to be with you."

"I might announce that our next rreeting of
the Board on the last Tuesday and wednesday of
~une is going to be at Craig and Flaming Gorge.
vie hope to see you then."

"Good: I will look forward to it."

I

"Tomorrow, in Salt Lake City, each of the
states is bringing a statement of position which
we hope to consolidate into a single statement
which will be the representative position of all
of the seven states in the Colorado River Basin.
All of the states, with the possible exception
of Arizona, do not feel that the report which the