BOARD02250

• Board Meeting Date: 8/6/1951
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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(b) From storing or permitting the storage of more than a total amount of 17,000
acre feet of water for irrigation purposes from the North Platte River and its tribu-
taries in Jackson County, Colorado, betWeen October 1 of any year and September 30 ~~.the
following year;

(c) From exporting out of the basin of the North Platte River and its tribu-
taries in J'lckson,County, Colorado, to' any'.other' stream 'basin' or basins more. than
60,000 acre feet of water in any period of ten consecutive years reckoned in con-
tinuing progressive series beginning with Uctober 1, 1945.

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XIII. Any of the parties may apply at the foot of this decree for its amendment or
for further relief. The Court retains jurisdiction of this suit for the purpose of any
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order, direction, or modifieation of the decree, or any supplementary decree, that may
at any time be deemed proper in relation to the subject matter in controversy.
Matters with reference to which further relief may hereafter he sought shall include,
but shall not be limited to, the following:

(a) The question of the applicability and effect of the Act of August 9,1937,
50 Stat. 564, 595-596, upon the rights of Colorado and its water users when and if
water hereafter is.available for storage and use in connection with the Kendrick
Project in Wyoming.

(b) The question of the effect upon the rights of upstream areas of the
construction or threatened construction in downstream areas of any projects not
now existing or recognized in this decree;

(c) The question of the effect of the construction or threatened construction
of storage capacity not now existing on"tributaries entering the. North Platte River
between Pathfinder Reservoir and Guernsey Reservoir;

(d) The question of the right to divert at or abOVe the headgate of the
Casper Canal any water in lieu of, or in exchange for, any water developed by
artificial drainage to the river of sump areas on the Kendrick Project;

(e) Any question relating to the joint operation of Pathfinder, Guernsey,
Seminoe and Alcova Reservoirs whenever changed conditions make such joint
operation.possible.

(f) Any change :in conditions mking modification of the decree or the granting
of further relief necessary or appropriate.

On June 11, 1951, State Engineer Bishop of V~oming directed a letter to
Regional Director Batson in which he stated opposition to the Glendo Project on I
the basis that it takes 4,000 irrigated acres of Wyoming land out of production
and does not replace them and also on the gro und that it will require undesirable
highway and railway relocation. It is understood that the Wyoming Natural .
Resource Board will consider the project at a meeting on July l6 and 17.

When called upon by Mr. Batson to state the position of ColoradO, I pointed
out that the Colorado Water Conservation Board had never taken any official stand-..