BOARD02250

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

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In the a9sence of any interstate agreement which will pe~it the dam and reservoir
to be used for consumptive use purposes such as irrigation, the benefits from Glendo
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will be from flOOd control, power generation, and an :i1nprovement in the quality of water
for municipal uses in the City of Casper. Mr. Batson displayed and explained charts
showing the prospective povrer demands in the areas in ,~oming, Nebraska, and Colorado
which vdll bd served by Glendo. These charts shovred that even with the additional power
sources f#rm1the Colorado-Big Thompson Project and from the Glendo Project there vdll be
shortages a ter 1960.

The on y direct benefit to Colorado from the Glendo Project is an increase in the
electric er generating capacity in the area from which northeastern Colorado is served.
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The P~oject represents a potential detriment to Colorado only in so far as its
construction andoperation, when considered in connection vdth the 1945 decree, may
constitute a downstream developnent which, if acquiesced in by yolorado, may prove to be
a barrier to any Colorado effort to modify that decree.

In this connection Mr. Gildersleeve made a study to determ!i:ne the apparellt increase
in stream depletion by reason of Glendo. To do this he analyzed the operation studies
of the Bureau. Attached hereto are the two sunnnary sheets of Mr. Gildersleeve's study.
Exhibit A is based t1pmthe Bureau's "Control Study" which is without Glendo. Exhibit B
is based on the Bureau's "Operation 9 b" which is with G1endo. The difference between
the two next to the last figures in the right hand columns (i.e. 75.2-59.6 or 15,600
acre-feet) represents Mr. Gildersleeve's conclusion as to the iocrease in stream de-
pletion in the 1940-1946 period by having Glendo on the stream.

The Bureau operation studies are based upon a depletion of 33,800 acre-feet be-
cause of the operation of the full 20,000 acres of the Kendrick Project. Representatives
of the Bureau stated that the present storage to the credit of Kendrick was over 1,000,000
acre-feet. At the end of the 1950 vmter year the storage to the credit of Kendrick was
990,000 acre-feet. It was pointed out the 75% of this Kendrick storage was secured in
one year.

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the consideration by Colorado of the Glendo Project due regard must be given to
of August 9, 1937, which appropriated funds for the cons truction of the Kendrick
in \~oming. This act reads in part as follows (50 Stat. 595):
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"Provided, That in recognition of the respective rights of both
the States of Colorado and Wyoming to the amicable use of the waters of
the North Platte River, neither the construction, maintenapce, nor operation
of said (Kendrick) project shall ever interfere with the present vested
rights or the fullest use hereafter for all beneficial purposes of the
waters of said stream or any of its tributaries within the drainage basin
thereof in Jackson County, in the State of Colorado, and the ~ecretary of the
Interior is hereby authorized and directed to reserve the power by contract
. to enforce such provisions at all times."

Consideration must also be given to Paragraphs I and XIII of the 1945 North Platte
decree which read thus:

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State of Colorado, its officers, attorney.s, agents and employees, be and
hereby severally enjoined \

(a) From diverting or perr.litting the diversion of water from the
North Platte River and its tributaries for the irrigation of more than a
total of 135,000 acres of land in Jankson County, Colorado, during anyone
irrigation season;