BOARD02167

• Board Meeting Date: 9/14/1962
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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something in the neighborhood of $200,000.
By the simple expedient of incorporating
that with our topographic program in the
state we have been able to reduce that cost
to about $50,000. So that's the type of thing
that's still plaguing us in the state. We're
still duplicating efforts and spending far too
much money on things which by some simple
cooperation could greatly reduce the cost and
speed up the time required.

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Again it's a pleasure to be back. My
primary interest is going to lie in the water
field and, as I say, my appointment as Natural
Resources Director is an interim appointment
only.

Thank you."

MR. STAPLETON:

"Thank you, Larry.

We'd like now to call for a report from
our consultant, Clifford Jex. Mr. Jex."

MR. JEX:

"Mr. Chairman and members of the Board,
some three years ago, or more specifically,
in June of 1959, Director Sparks requested
that I make a study of the water resources of
the several tributaries of the Colorado River
in Colorado. This study was specifically
directed at answers to three questions. First,
what is the present consumptive use of water
on the tributaries in western Colorado; second,
what is the potential consumptive use on each
of the tributaries; and third, what water is
likely to remain in the streams to go on down
to meet compact requirements at Lee Ferry.

Now the work was first started on the
San Juan River tributaries. Among ourselves
at that time we felt that possibly we could
use the San Juan as a guinea pig to develop
certain procedures. At the endE,f the first
year of the study we compiled a short summary
report of the San Juan River tributaries.

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