BOARD02551

• Board Meeting Date: 8/11/1965
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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At this time Governor Love entered the meeting.

MR. SPARKS:

GOVERNOR LOVE:

MR. SPARKS:

GOVERNOR JOHNSON:

"The specific problems we are faced with
have been well outlined. To set them down
in some fashion, I will state:

First, our problem is that our future
use of water, our actual diversion, will be
limited to about 5.6 million acre-feet of
water per year. That's headgate diversions.
About two million acre-feet less than we
have always planned on. This means that in
the foreseeable future the Upper Basin must
have imported water supplies. That's the
first problem we face. The necessity of
imported water supplies in the foreseeable
future.

The second problem that we are faced
with, which has been outlined by Mr. Tipton,
is the Mexican Treaty burden. He has men-
tioned the fact that the minutes which dealt
with the million acre-feet, the III (b) water,
are missing. Those minutes, of course, were
deliberately destroyed. It seems to me
that somebody should, somewhere in the United
states, have a copy of those minutes for
historical interest. If anybody knows where
a copy is, we would appreciate knowing.
This might be a subject of sleuthing by some
of the newspapers."

"I think, perhaps, you are asking the
wrong group:"

"Actually, we had a representative from
Colorado, we had several people from Colorado
who participated in those hearings and they
had copies of the minutes. The question is -
did our own people also destroy their copies?
If they did not, we have not been able to
come up with a copy of those minutes which
would shed a lot of light on this million
acre-feet that Senator Johnson has mentioned."

"I>lr. Sparks, may I ask a question?"