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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8541
Description
San Luis Valley Project
State
CO
Basin
Rio Grande
Water Division
3
Date
1/1/3000
Author
Jean S Breitenstein
Title
San Luis Valley Project Closed Basin Division - 1947 - Statement of Jean S Breitenstein, Attorney for Conejos Water Conservancy District
Water Supply Pro - Doc Type
Report/Study
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<br />, <br /> <br />OV..lJG3 <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />, I <br /> <br />JY (\' <br />'\ \1" <br /> <br />STATEl1!Wr OF JEA/l S. BREI"rE:iSTEIN, <br />718 SYl13S BUILDTI10, DE::V::Jl, COWRADO, <br />ATto3!TZY FOR COl"E'JOS WATZR COHSZRVAl':CY <br />DISTRICT <br /> <br />S1l!1llARY <br /> <br />1. The location of the Conejo15 llreB at an altitude of 7 # 700 <br />feet in the Colorado mountains requires for Suooessful farmdng a definite <br />patter~ of crop rot~tion, a subst~itial irvestment in land improvements <br />ar..d ll.;rioultuTD.l equipment, and a oombinahon of stoo!: raising with irri- <br />gated agriculture, all of whioh neoessitate for sucoessful operations <br />farm units 8ubsta~tially in exoess of 160 aores. <br /> <br />2. The Conejos area is an agrioultural oommunity vdtich oontains <br />:to federal publio Innd and which is :lOW divided i.r.to individual farming <br />enterprises of a size whioh ha.s bee:]. determb.ed by the operation of economic <br />foroes over a ,eriod of nore thau 70 years. <br /> <br />3. The recla.'IlIltion projeot to be oonstructed for the Canejoa <br />area will not develop any new wnter but will nerely re-regulate water ~ow <br />covered qy existing approprlatio~ decrees 60 that ~uter may be available <br />during periods of low strea.'ll. flov;s. The Rio Grande Compaot between the <br />states of Tems, :!ew tie;doo and Colorado requires state line deliveries <br />by Colorado under a schedule which will not pormit the development o~ new <br />water by the Conejas project. <br /> <br />4. The oonditions within the area are such that if the land <br />litnitBtions are not rer.1Oved the holders of e:.:oesa lands can reoeive the <br />benefits of the project through inoreased return flows ane! a higher water <br />table without payi:Jg &:1ything for watar so made availablo to them. <br /> <br />5- Thore 1s no danser of land spooulation or oorporate fa~ng <br />1.:1 t.lte araa. <br />
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