BOARD02138

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

Section 13 that exportations from the Colorado
River basin should not exceed an annual average
of 320,000 acre-feet by districts organized under
that act. This was amended in 1943 Chap. lS2,
Colo. S. L. 1943 to read as follows:

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'Provided, however, that any works or facili-
ties planned and designed for the exporta-
tion of water from the natural basin of the
Colorado River and its tributaries in Colo-
rado by any district created under this Act,
shall be subject to the provisions of the
Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon
Project Act, as amended; that any such works
or facilities shall be designed, constructed,
and operated in such a manner that the
present appropriations of water, and in addi-
tion thereto prospective uses of water for
irrigation and other beneficial consumptive
use purposes, including consumptive uses for
domestic, mining and industrial purposes,
within the natural basin of the Colorado
River in the State of Colorado, from which
water is exported, will not be impaired nor
increased in cost at the expense of the water
users within the said natural basin; and that
the facilities and other means for the accom-
plishment of said purpose shall be incorporat-
ed in, and made a part of. any project plans
for the exportation of water from said
natural basin in Colorado.'"

The Colorado River Water Conservation Dis-
trict urge you, therefore, to refuse approval of
the Ft. Collins request for the following reasons:

(1) with the Cache la poudre River at her
doorstep, so to speak, and at her command under
provisions of Colorado Law with respect to emi-
nent domain, Ft. Collins has a good and com-
pletely adequate alternative source of water
supply for meeting her expanding needs.

(2) In our opinion, approval of this request
would repudiate the long standing position of
this Board as expressed in Judge Breitenstein's
quoted report.