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<br />00 .-/ c' <br />... ~ IJ 't <br /> <br />17 June 1955 <br /> <br />Memorandum to: Ivan C. Crawford, Director <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br /> <br />Prom: <br /> <br />R. J. Tipton, Consulting Engineer <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br /> <br />Subject : <br /> <br />Proposed Report of Regional Director on Rio Grande <br />and Weminuche Pass Divisions, San Luis Valley Project, <br />Rio Grande Basin, Colorado - June 1955. <br /> <br />The U. S. Bureau of Reclamation submitted a Supplemental <br />Report on Rio Grande and Weminuche Pass Divisions, San Luis Valley <br />Project, Rio Grande Basin, Colorado, d~ted February 1953 to the <br />State of Colorado for comments. Dan Thornton, Governor of the <br />State of Colorado and Ex-Officio Chairman of the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board, and Ivan C. Crawford, Director of the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board rn~da comments on the report on behalf <br />of the State of Colorado in a letter to the Secretary of the Department <br />of Interior dated August 12, 1953. That letter summarized the position <br />of the State of Colorado as follows: <br /> <br />a.The project as recommended by the Bureau of Reclamation <br />is not the most economical project which can be con- <br />ceived for the area to be benefited. <br /> <br />b. The recommended power features of the project cannot <br />be justified from an engineering or economic standpoint. <br /> <br />c. A reservoir with a capacity of 1,000,000 acre-feet <br />cannot be justified from an engineering standpoint. <br /> <br />d. The reduction in flood control benefits from the sum <br />of $361,000 as found by both the Bureau of Reclamation <br />and Corps of Er,gincers in 1940, to the sum of $177 ,000, <br />as stated in tle supplemental report of the Bureau of <br />Reclamation, appears unrealistic particularly when <br />considered in the light of ~ub~tantial increase which <br />has occurred slnce 1940 in =rop and property values. <br /> <br />The State of Colorado then recomnended that the project be <br />restudied with the view of attaining the following major objectives: <br /> <br />a. The determination of the most economical reservoir <br />for the area; that is, the reservoir which will provide <br />the greatest benefit at the least cost. <br />