WSP02201

• File Number: 8200.766
• Description: Gunnison River General Publications-Correspondence-Reports
• State: CO
• Basin: Gunnison
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 1/1/1984
• Author: Various
• Title: CRWCD Publications - Waterlogue-1984 - Compensatory Storage-1985 - Waterways-1985 Annual Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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"Bf'('aUSf~ of the pressure for diversion of surplus
waters from th(. \rf'stern Slopf' to Ihl:' vallevs of th",
Platte, the Arkansas and the Hin Grandt'. probably the
most important part of the plan is that contaim.od in what
is kno.....n as the Delant.\. Resolution. .....hich establishes
thl:' basis upon which 'thl:' Planning' Commission \\-ill
approve such diwr.<:ions as twing beneficial to all river
basins in\'Oh'f.d At the second slatev.;de conference,
held at Grand ,Junction on l-)'bruarv 27th and 28th of
this year. a resolution again was adopted by unanimous
vute of the ('min' confprt>ncl:'. approving the Dl'Janey
Hesolulion ID; Ihl' basis for trans. mountain diversions."
But now thl'rp art.' manifest altf'mpts upon the part
of cf'rtain indi\'iduals to insist Upon pNty dt'partures
from the program l:'stahlishro by thtO' l)tO'laney Hesolu-
tion and reJ.lffirnwd at Grand Junction. The insistence
of these pt.'Opll:' is jl'()pardizing Colorado's right to enjoy

thtO' waters of the rivers which originate along the con.
tint.ntal divide and Olav lead to the most serious conse-
quences - coOSt'Quenres which v.-ilJ halt all pN>sent plans
for development. nullify the sincere and thoughtfuJ work
of the COmmission and its ad\isorv committee and l'on.
ceivably lead to tht> confiscation of our waters by users
in other staws. so that progress and development in
Colorado will be at an end."

"Our danger and our nft'd are real. as is our Oppor-
tunity to sa{ebruard the present and prepare {or the
future. But the danE-,rers we {ace within our state are no
less wrious than those that threaten us from outside.
Colorado v.ill make no progress toward expansion and
grov.th through her water resourCL'S until a plan has hfoen
agrt'f'd Upon by those actually aff{'(..tffi and that plan
has the unitt.>d SUpport of all our people in both public
and in private life."

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