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co ~ co .-oj COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD 102 columbine Building 1845 Sherman Street Denver, Colorado 80203 September 3, 1970 M E M 0 RAN DUM TO: Members, Colorado Water Conservation Board and Colorado Water Congress Advisory Committee. FROM: Felix L. Sparks. Director SUBJECT: Agenda Item #2, Proposed Comments on Yellow Jacket Project, Board Meeting September 11, 1970. Under date of October 14, 1968, the Regional Director of Region 4, Bureau of Reclamation, forwarded copies of his proposed feasibility report on the Yellow Jacket Project to this Board. The report was submitted to the Board for informal review and comment prior to the report being submitted to the Secretary of the Interior. On January 15. 1969, the Board considered the proposed report as an agenda item. The report contains a controversial recommendation that the Oak Ridge area, mostly privately owned, be purchased at project expense and transferred to the Colorado Department of Game, Fish and Parks. The Oak Ridge area is not within the boundaries of the yellow Jacket Project and has no remote connection with the project, other than both the project and the Oak Creek area are situated in Rio Blanco county. At the meeting of January 15. 1969, the recommendation concerning the Oak Ridge area was opposed by the Yellow Jacket Water conservancy District and by the staff of this Board. The Board then decided to postpone any final action on the recommendation in the hope that some compromise agreement could be arrived at among the various parties directly concerned. The Yellow Jacket Project would encompass two principal areas for development - one along Milk Creek in the Yampa River drainage, and the other along White River near Meeker. The White River segment would serve 15,740 acres of land with a full water supply and 2,000 acres with a supplemental supply. The Milk Creek segment would serve 4.180 acres with a full supply and 1.690 acres with a supplemental supply.