BOARD02033

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

saline flows from winter to summer.

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A solution must be reached which will not
only take care of this particular problem but
which would point the way for any abnormal
evacuation which should not be considered as
part of normal river operation. It must be
anticipated that as development continues on
the Colorado River the general quality of water
will deteriorate and nothing should be done by
us or anyone else which will ignore this fact.
However, we are advised that the normal increase
in salinity is not what is causing the present
problem and does not constitute a particular
problem to the Mexican people.'

Now I'd like to go back to page 2 of this,
which many of you have. you are probably wonder-
ing why I left out one paragraph and a phrase in
one sentence. The first full paragraph was dis-
cussed at the Water Congress Executive Committee
meeting yesterday and this was mentioned. I
might say, by Bob Barkley. He felt that this
paragraph would lend itself to being lifted out
of context and could, because of the reference
to total tonnage of salt, be used in a damaging
manner against the United States and perhaps
against the river at some future time. So, in
looking this over, it did not appear to me, and
Ray concurs in this, (we wrote this jointly,
incidentally), that this paragraph neither
particularly adds nor detracts from this document
so we agreed that we would strike it for that
reasoning.

Now to proceed:

'We therefore recommend the following:

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(a) That this Committee declare that the
report entitled "Special Studies,
Delivery of ~'later to Mexico", dated
February 1963, be declared an unaccept-
able proposal to solve the existing
problem.