BOARD02386

• Board Meeting Date: 3/8/1972
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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with sediment and that we don't have the data
on how much water they will actually store
today. We know that they are also of value in
the state's economy. All the drinking water
of this city comes through reservoirs as does
the drinking water of all the Front Range urban
area. The economy is greatly affected by the
tourist industry that they attract. Of course,
there is irrigation water. I am not telling
you people anything on irrigation, nor am I
telling you anything on the problems of flood
protection. Fish and wildlife is a big industry
and these lakes have a great effect in the total
fishery.

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Ted said we tried a couple of years ago
to look at the interests in lakes in the state.
We have established in my talking with people
in the state that there are at least a dozen
public groups that are concerned with lakes in
one form or another. Of course, there is the
state engineer's office who keeps a handle on
dams and dam construction and a registry on
dams: the Colorado Division of Game, Fish and
Parks which maintains some records and stock-
ing activity on well over twelve or thirteen
hundred lakes; the Colorado State Health Depart-
ment which has a regular and irregular program
of biological sampling; the Bureau of Reclama-
tion owns some 28 reservoirs in the state, de-
pending on whether you want to call Navajo in
the state or out of the state, capable of stor-
ing some four million acre-feet. There are
other federal groups such as the Bureau of
Outdoor Recreation, Fish and Wildlife Service.
and of course, the Corps of Engineers. There
are some other public groups within the state
that are concerned with the waters and the
lakes in the state. Maybe, the biggest of these
is the Denver Board of Water Commissioners
which maintains reservoirs on the South Platte
system, in the Moffat drainage system, and of
course, Dillon Reservoir, high on the western
slope of the Divide. Universities of the state
are involved and if you go into the library

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