BOARD02546

• Board Meeting Date: 1/9/1963
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

the operating principles and the conflicts that
exist among the water users. I feel confident
that by early spring those things will be
worked out after which the effects of the
project, no doubt, will be arrived at and dis-
cussed with the Arkansas Valley Ditch Associa-
tion and the Arkansas River Compact Adminis-
tration. We are very optimistic about this
project. We want to build it and we've had
wonderful support from all interests concerned.

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with respect to other studies in the Arkan-
sas River Basin, namely the general investiga-
tions program, we have received funds for a
continuation of studies which have been underway
for some time and at the present time we are
concentrating on a local protection project
study at Las Animas. This would consist pri-
marily of the levee on the south bank of the
Arkansas River and a small recreation pool
adjacent to the levee. It would consist of a
small excavated pool of about 19 acres for
recreation in the area and I'd like to point
out that this is a rather unique thing insofar
as our work is concerned. It has been made
possible by recent legislation which has per-
mitted us to include recreation in connection
with local protection projects, projects in-
volving levees and that type of thing, or non-
reservoir projects.

We have had wonderful cooperation from
the state of Colorado, the state Game and Fish
Department and the Public Health Service, the
Water Board,and other local interests in con-
nection with this project at Las Animas. We
intend to have a draft of a report ready in
the next few months at which time we will ask
for field level review and comments. Also we
intend to present the project to local interests
in the near future and tell them exactly what
their local requirements will be with respect
to furnishing rights-of-way, etc. It looks
like a very good project and we will get a
draft of report to the Board in a short time.

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