BOARD02069

• Board Meeting Date: 11/13/1968
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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floods in small watersheds. The benfits to,
be derived from this is to provide design
information for waterway openings, such as
bridges and culverts to supplement design
information for state highway systems.

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Another project that was initiated and
completed was done for the Secretary of
Interior's program on promoting development
of oil shale in the Piceance creek Basin.
We used the information obtained from a study
we made for the Colorado Water Conservation
Board to prepare this study. The special
effort we put in on this then will be pub-
lished in the Hydrologic Atlas now in pre-
paration by the Colorado District. We hope
that this will be out during calendar year
1969.

Under proposed projects, we have been
cooperating with a number of agencies in
drafting these proposals and we anticipate
that various agencies will participate in
the actual conductance of these particular
surveys. One of them is among the Colorado
Water Conservation Board, Federal Water
Pollution Control Administration, Soil Con-
servation Service, Colorado State University,
and the Bureau of Reclamation. This one was
mentioned in the first report we had today
from the Bureau of Reclamation so I won't
elaborate on that one.

The second one is in collaboration with
Colorado State university and it is for
estimating degradation of water as it is
being developed on the High Plains of Colo-
rado. This is the Ogallala formation that
many of you are acquainted with.

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The third proposal is to study the
feasibility of using deep surface strata
in Colorado for disposing of liquid wastes.
The Colorado School of Mines and Colorado
State University will be active participants
with the Geological Survey on this project.