BOARD02571

• Board Meeting Date: 6/5/1958
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Mr. Moses inquired if these priorities met with the
approval of Mr. Lew Williams, Mr. McCandless and Mr. Peterson
for the projects in their areas and was told they did. He
also asked Mr. J. A. Hughes if he wished to make a statement
on the priority list of Mr. Nelson. Mr. Hughes briefly told
of the interest in his district in these priorities.

MR. MOSES:

"Would you like to make a motion that
the Board's list of priorities be revised
to conform with this list, Mr. Nelson?"

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MR. NELSON:
MR. PETERSON:

"I would like to so move."

"I second the motion."

.J.

The motion was passed unanimously.

MR. MOSES:

"The next item is the Cherry Creek
Dam operation proposal. Mr. Whitten."

MR. WH1TI'EN:

"In the season of 1957, excessive
run-off in the South Platte Basin war-
ranted the withholding of water in Cherry
Creek Reservoir and this was done to the
extent of approximately 4,500 acre feet.

As there was no valid claim upon
this water, I requested the Corps of
Engineers, who operate the same, to
withhold the water until such time as
its release might be requested. No
such claim has ever been made, since
the water in this reservoir, before
referred to, was stored at such time
or times when there was no legal demand
for water by prior appropriators located
below the reservoir.

The Corps of Engineers were anxious
to release the water, since their princi-
pal activity is flood control and the
plan of operation was that the reservoir
was to have been operated as a dry reser-
voir until such time as conservation uses
of a portion of the reservoir might be
made.

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