BOARD02069

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

determination of a ceiling on water rights
for agricultural purposes on an annual
basis. It reads:

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'The most efficient utilization of the
water resources of each water division will
require the establishment of the water re-
quirement of various classes of irrigated,
agricultural land for optimum production,
and the designation for each class of the
total maximum quantity of water to be applied
to each acre for a full water supply. The
division engineer, for each division, shall
implement the limitations on total permissi-
ble diversions for each area classified by
designating as to each the total permissible
headgate or wellhead diversion on both
direct and storage water. I

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To move along and to tie this with the
advisory board concept, as many of you know,
there have been many different suggestions
as to how this should be handled and financed.
One of them was to enlarge upon the powers
of conservancy districts and give them ex-
tended powers. There has been a lot of
objection. to that because many people feel
that they are water users the same as other
people and they didn't like the idea of
giving them too much authority. Others favor
something similar to the Rio Grande Water
Conservation District. Nobody is firm on
any of these but we suggested the advisory
board proposal here because we felt that we
could accomplish everything without maybe
setting up another layer of authority. In
the Denver area alone we have over 152 water
and sanitation districts at the present time.
They are involved in one way or another in
this water matter.

You have to put teeth in these things;
you have to give them enforcement provisions
similar to what we have in 1066. We get
comments in 'We don't need any change in the