BOARD02138

• Board Meeting Date: 9/11/1963
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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in Senate Document No. 80, but also other poten-
tial development in western Colorado not speci-
fically named in said Document, but which were
intended to be protected by general provisions
of said Document.

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For the foregoing reasons, the Colorado
River Water Conservation District takes the posi-
tion that the provisions of Senate Document No.
80 referred to facts under consideration at the
time of the proposed authorization of the Colo-
rado-Big Thompson Project. Those who authored
that Document had in mind, so far as exports from
the Colorado Basin were concerned, only the water
which was specifically designated to be diverted
for the Big Thompson Project by means of said
project works.

Adding additional streams and additional
sources of supply of water to be exported through
the project facilities was certainly not contem-
plated by the framers of said Senate Document 80
and we take the position that the proposed ex-
panded use of these facilities, if allowed, must
inevitably injure western Colorado interests and
interfere with future in-basin development. This
was certainly the opinion expressed by a former
attorney for this Board, the Honorable Jean S.
Breitenstein, who in a Colorado Water Conserva-
tion Board publication entitled, "Preliminary
Memorandum on the Colorado River", dated August
3, 1947, presented statements and quotes as fol-
lows:

"THE SITUATION AS TO EXPORTATIONS FROM THE BASIN
IN COLORADO

The differences of opinion which have arisen
from time to time between the east slope and west
slope interests in Colorado are well known. The
principal questions which have heretofore arisen
have developed from the projects of the City of
Denver for the use of West slope water, from the
Colorado-Big Thompson project, and from the pro-
posed Blue-South platte and Gunnison-Arkansas
transmountain diversions.

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