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<br />over its full amount of water. In other words., if the Lower Basin is <br />getting all of its water that it is entitled to, anything over and <br />above that use is a surplus under: the compact which must first go to <br />satisfy the_Mexican Treaty before any call can be made on the Uppe~ <br />Basin. There are no if's. or and's about it in the compact. It is <br />crystal clear. <br /> <br />We have known that we have been getting cheated for a number of years, <br />but we-really-coufdn't document it. This report is an eye-opener. <br />The report shows that the Upper: Basin is using.only a little over <br />3,000,000 acre-feet of wate~ annually and the Lower Basin over 10,000,000 <br />acre-feet,.way above its allocated amount. Therefore, anything above <br />the allocated amount is surplus under the. compact and must go to <br />satisfy the Mexican Treaty before any demand is placed on the Upper <br />Basin. We are being robbed of 750:,000 acre-feet of water annually by <br />any accepted method of arithmetic. <br /> <br />That is the thrust of the coming Upper Basin meeting and it is <br />s ome thing- which will come up before this board in the near future. <br />The staff has prepared a comprehensive memorandUIli on this subject. It <br />will be: mailed out to the board and to the executive ~ommittee of the <br />Water Congress either. today or tomorrow. .Any members who want to sit <br />in on the legal and engineering committees' meeting next Monday are <br />welcome to do so. The meeting will be held at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, <br />starting at .ten o'clock, Monday; then followed up on February 6 by a <br />meeting of the Upper Colorado River Commission. <br /> <br />Mr. Chairman, I would like to close by introducing a new staff member. <br />Is Dan :still here? Dan, will you stand up. Dan Law is a new staff <br />member in our planning and construction section. I guess you're an . <br />engineer, aren't you, Dan? That's what your application s'aid anyway. <br />Dan has had considerable experience in the .water resources .field. We <br />have had two people leave our staff in the last six months. . They both <br />left .the state. We don't know whether they couldn'-t stand the heat <br />or what happened, -but anyway they left. We :introduced the previous <br />replacement at the last board IIieeting. . <br /> <br />Mr. Chairman,. .Mr.: Fetcher has some.remarks about the Yamcolo project <br />that he would like to make .' <br /> <br />MR. FETCHER: : I wanted to bring the board up to date on a very small <br />project. After hearing Larry toss figures in the. air of 10,000,000 <br />acre-feet and 3,000,000 acre-feet, we are talking about 9,000 acre- <br />feet, a small project on the headwaters of the Yampa River. It <br />appears that we are about to get over the last hurdle which is a <br />favorable. report from the Forest Service. .We haven't received this <br />report yet, but we expect. it. We are planning to go ahead with this <br /> <br />-;;'52';' <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />