BOARD02250

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

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12. Approval of minutes of Board meetings.

Director Stone announced that Judge Dan H. Hughes vmuld not arrive until afternoon;
that Teller Ammons was out of town and would not be present; and that M. C. Hinderlider,
State Engineer, would be unable to attend.
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The Director stated that he had received a letter from? newly formed Aspen
County Water organization asking to be heard by the Board respecting its opposition to
the proposed Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. This r,roup, he said, is scheduled to appear
in the Board session at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon of August 6.

The first order of business was the consideration of ~tem 1 on the agenda. This
item concerns the proposed Glendo yroject, located on the North Platte River in V(yomL~g
near the 1'(yomiIlg-Nebraska state line. The DirActor explained that several months ago
he had asked Jean S. Breitenstein, Attorney for the Board, to ass~e the responsibili~
of handling this matter on behalf of the Board. Mr. Breitenstein has made various re-
ports to the Director on the Glendo Project matter, one of which is contained ip his
letter of July 10, 1951 which Ylas mimeographed and sent out to the members of the Board.

The Vice'Chairman, then called upon lir. Breitenstein to submit a report to the board
on the subject of the proposed Glendo Project.

Because of the importance of the proposed Glendo Project matter to the state of
Colorado, and in view of the insertion in the minutes, by instruction of the Board in
order to reflect more fully the problems incident thereto, of certain reports and
letters submitted to Mr. Breitenstein, there is inserted at this point five paragraphs
from the letter of the Director of Region 7, Buneau of Reclamation, to the Commissioner
of the Bureau of Reclamation on the subject of the report on the Glendo Unit, Oregon
Trail DiVision, Missouri liiver Basin Project as follovls:

"1. This is my definite plan report on the Glendo Unit, Oregon Trail DiviSion,
of the Missouri River Basin project. The Glendo Unit, a multiple-purpose develop-
ment,consists of the Glendo Dam, Reservoir and power plant, to be located near the
town of G~ndo, V(yoming, and the Fremont Canyon power plant, to be located near the
backwaters of Alcova Reservoir on the North Platte River, about 3.5 miles down-
stream from Pathfinder Dam. The report and substantiating documents are s\tbmitted
for your approval and for departmental action with a view toward securing Congres-
sional approval for the modified plan of development for the unit.

"2. The Glendo Unit was authorized for construction under the Flood Control
Act of 1944 (Public Law 534), 78th Congress, 2d Session, December 22, 1944 (58
Stat. 887) as a unit of the Missouri River Basin project. The plan for the pro-
ject was set forth in Senate Document 191, 78th Congress, 2d Session, April,1944.
The original authorization provided for a storage cap3.city of approximately. 150,000
acre-feet in the Glendo Reservoir for the purposes of~tional sediment storage
and replacement of capacity lost to sediment in Guernsey Reservoir, the reregula-
tion of return flows from irrigation on the Kendrick projec~, and the development
of more power.

"3. Subsequent investigations have disclosed the necessity for increasing
the capacity of Glendo Reservoir to provide for flood control in the highly devel-
oped reach of the North Platte River valley in WYoming and Nebraska below the Glendo
Reservoir site, and the reregulation of upstream pewler releases so that the waters
of the river could he utilized mos~effectively for hydroelectric power production.
These needs are in addition to the original purposes of ~~e Glendo Unit. As a
result of the later investigations the interested st~tes of Colorado, Nebraska,
and \Vyo,?ing 'expressed concern reg"rding _theteffecttofRthe operations of a larger
reservo~ on vested water rlghts In th~ Nor h PLat elver.