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.... .' :" from future encroachments or obstructions; (d) preserve ~d maintain unimpaired the capacity of the old channel of the Arkansas River between the Southern Colorado Power Company's Dam and the proposed levee crossing for the purpose of handl:l.ng internal drainage; and (e) maintain and oper;!.te the works after completion in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of ,the Army." 2. This report and accompanying recommendations have been reviewed ~ the staff of the Colorado Water Conservation Board. Affected local interests have also reviewed the report and have been interviewed ~ the Board. Consideration has been given in this review to the effect of the operation of the proposed local flood control protective measures on, and in relation to, the importation of water from the Colorado River Basin by the proposed Gunnison-Arkansas Project now under investigation by the Bureau of Reclamation. In this respect, the Board finds: / (a) The local. interest which is most directly concerned in the proposed flood control development described in the subject report, and which would be responsible to carry out the obligations defined in sub-paragraphs (a) (b) (c) (d) and (e), quoted above, is The Pueblo Conservancy District. This exhibit contains the assurances of the District to the United States that it will assume such obligations. (b) The Arkansas Valley Ditch Association, a voluntary organization composed of most of the irrigation districts in the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, states through its attorney, A. W. McHendrie, of Pueblo, Colorado, that the Ditch Associa- tion is not concerned in the proposed local flood'protection works at Pueblo and offers no objection to this flood control development. (c) Representatives of the Water Development Associa- tion of Southeastern Colorado, a non-profit corporation organized under,the laws of the State of Colorado and embracing within its activities twelve counties in the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, have made available to the State Water Board its views and recom- mendations. This organization has for its primary purpose the promotion of the investigation, authorization and construction of a project for the exportation of water from the Colorado River Basin for use in the Arkansas River Basin in Colorado. Certain of its officers stated that The Pueblo Conservancy District Board was fully justified in endeavoring to obtain local flood control protection works "to correct the weak- nesses in existing conservancy district structures". These Development Association officers, however, recommended in their COlrJllents to this Board the reservation for future consideration of those' nood control benefits in the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, which may be afforded. by a reservoir a short distance above Pueblo which is included in the plan of the pro- posed Gunnison-Arkansas transmounta:l,n diversion project. It "'7 - 2 ..