BOARD02195

• Board Meeting Date: 9/12/1964
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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about this Narrows Dam. I have been active in
the opposition to the Narrows Dam for 16 years
now and I expect to continue that. The fact
is that the opposition generated by Senator
Milliken, Judge Stone, and J. M. Dille were
probably the cumulative factors in 1950 and
'52 that caused the water Board not to make
any decision at that time.

There is no use for me to review any of
the things that have been said this morning
because I believe they have been pretty well
stated and I'll simply summarize the position
of the Water Users Association. I think we
have made it clear today that there can be
nO compromise of our position. There has been
presented all the facts relating to the desir-
ability of the dam being located at the lower
Weld county site. Irrespective of the pro-
posed cost, such a dam should be built and we
should not make the same mistake that the
united States Bureau of Reclamation did in
1950.

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On the other hand, if the colorado Water
Conservation Board is willing to follow the
recommendations of the United States Bureau of
Reclamation and ignore: (1) its own engineer-
ing staff; (2) the recommendations of the
international engineers; (3) the Woodward-
Clyde-Shera~d report; (4) the Justin Haynes
report; (5) the recommendations of the wright
Engineering Service; (6) the opinions of
competent wa':er officials of the State of
Colorado; (7) the thoughtful, careful and
thorough report of Cecil J. Osborne; (8) the
fundamental precepts of storage and conserva-
tion of water; (9) the needs and necessities
of 55,000 acres of some of the finest irrigated
land in the state; (10) the tragic economics
resulting in the building of the Narrows; (11)
the best interests of the upper reaches of the
river; and (12) the general economy of Morgan
county, the State of Colorado and the United
states, then our course is clearly defined.
First, to vigorously oppose appropriations for