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<br />j. .....:or.~~_. :. <br />.~"" <br />.~- .. <br /> <br /> <br />.' .' ~\ () <br />1."1U'-' <br /> <br />On Septelll.ber 30. 195L~ Charles H. Boustead was electe< <br /> <br />as President of the Arkansas Valley Water DevelopnJcnt Associa- <br />71 <br />tion. 14r. Boustead was a~ e~ployee of C.?&I. and a member <br /> <br />of the Pueblo City Council, the Pueblo Chamber or Comnerce and <br /> <br />would prove to be very important to the Fryinspan-Arkansas <br />72 <br />Project. <br /> <br />1956 marked the year in which the Colorad~niver <br /> <br />Storage Projec t Act was passed by Congress. 'rhis act au thoriz <br /> <br />a nu~ber of projects in western Colorado and w~s stronGly supp <br /> <br />by the entire state. This unified support would soon end how- <br /> <br />ever. because Denver insisted prior to the passage of the act <br /> <br />that at least one transmountain diversion be included in the <br /> <br />Storage Project Act. As a result the State 30ard divided with <br />the Western Slope members united aGainst the ?ryir.span-Arkansa <br />Project and the Eastern Slope voting for the Fryingpan Project <br />The situation waS' such that the entire Fryingpan-Arkansas Proj <br />7 <br />came tc a complete halt and was not revived aGain until 1953. <br /> <br />President Eisenhour visited the Southeastern part of <br />Colorado in January of 1957. The president was a proponent oj <br />the Pr~ject but the actual reason for his visit was to declar~ <br />74 <br />the Arkansas Valley a drought areu. 11r. Boustead led the tc. <br /> <br />r(l <br /> <br />Christy. p. 52. <br />72 <br />Lohmiller. p. 150. <br />73 <br />74sp.arka, pp. 149. 150. <br /> <br />Thomson, p. i 5L:.. <br />