BOARD02177

• Board Meeting Date: 5/5/1952
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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give further consideration to the plan for storage on the Gunnison
River, as a unit of the Colorado River Storage Project, after
conferences regarding the report had been held with the Bureau of
Reclamation, the Policy and Review Committee be not discharged in
order that it may undertake, if necessary, further work in the
matter; and that the Board extend its thanks and appreciation
to the Committee for the work it has performed and its excellent
report.

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On vote being taken, the motion was unanimously carried, the
motion declared adopted and the report accepted and approved qy the
Colorado Water Conservation Board.

Members of the POlicy and ReView Committee who were present when
its report was considered were R. M. Gildersleeve, Jean S. Breitenstein,
F. M. Peterson, George Cory, Wayne Seaman for the Colorado Game and
Fish Department, and Clifford H. Stone. F. M. Peterson of Delta and
George Cory of Montrose made brief statement s concerning the report and
storage on the Gunnison River as a unit of the Colorado River Storage
Project.

Director Stone, as Chairman of the Policy and Review Committee, stated
that he wished to express his personal appreciation for the attitude and
the work of the members of that Committee; that it had been a difficult
task and that the members of this Committee, in his opinion, had satis-
factorily accomplished desirable results in the interests of the State
of Colorado.

After discussion of further procedure in relation to the plan of
storage on the Gunnison River, as a part of the Colorado River Storage
Project, the Director was requested to discuss the repo~ of the Ib1icy
and Review Committee and the plan therein recommended by that Collllllittee
and approved by the Board with appropriate officials of the fureau of
Reclamation and report back' to the 'Board. Such further steps, it was
agreed, shot4d be undertaken before the Board considers any revision
of its official comments to the Secretary of the Interior on the Colorado
River Storage Project.

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The recommendations contained in the report of the Policy and Review
Committee, Gunnison River Storage, approved on-this date by the Colorado
Water Conservation Board, are as follows:

1. . That the Board approve Plan E, more specifically hereinabove
described and discussed, for that part of the Colorado River Storage
Project which would be accomplished in the Gunnison River BaSin, such
Plan E to include, and be limited to, the following storage units:

Curecanti
Whitewate:r:-
Crystal

Total Storage

940,000 A.F.
880,000 A.F.
510,000 A.F.
2,330,000 A.F.

Active Stora!le
765,000 A.F.
470,000 A.F.
425,000 A.F.
1,660,000 A.F.

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