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<br />00072~ <br /> <br />STATE WATER NEWS . <br /> <br />Colorado I,.,,,' ::!, <br />'.':'. ,---- <br />.. _0. <br />Ival Goslin has been named Exec'utive Director;{ of the <br />Colorado Water Resources and Power1Authority. The Authority <br />is an independent agency that builds water and power projects. <br />It also attempts to find innovative means of financing projects <br />and has authority to issue revenue bonds. <br /> <br />Iowa <br /> <br />Iowa hosted the Midwestern Governor's Conference in <br />Des Moines earlier this week. The subject of water development <br />emerged several times during the conference where the results <br />of a water survey of the 13 states represented were released. <br />Only one state responding to the survey, the State of Kansas, <br />did not express outright opposition to the diversion of its <br />waters to another state (see clippings page C-l and C-2). <br />Nebraska Governor Charles Thone was elected Chairman of the <br />Midwestern Governor's Conference for the upcoming year, <br />succeeding Kansas Governor John Carlin. <br /> <br />The Iowa Department of Transportation has decided it will <br />not reopen the new Missouri River bridge between Sioux City, <br />Iowa, and South Sioux City, Nebraska. The decision not to <br />reopen was made on the recommendation of IDOT consultants <br />Wiss Janney Elstner and Associates and Howard Needles Tammen <br />and Bergendoff. The latter firm had designed the tied arch <br />structure. Recent tests by Wiss Janney and u.S. Steel found <br />that the cracked flange plate that prompted the closing was <br />below specifications for structural strength. Additional <br />tests will be run from cores taken at other locations on <br />the bridge. Previously, a flange that had cracked on a <br />similar tied arch bridge across the Mississippi River was <br />found to be structurally deficient and u.S. Steel's American <br />Bridge Division agreed to make repairs. <br /> <br />Kansas <br /> <br />The Attorneys General of Kansas and Colorado plan to <br />meet later this Summer or Fall to review the Kansas claim that <br />Colorado is delivering insufficient water under the terms <br />of the Arkansas River Compact. An interim committee of the <br />Kansas Legislature was to investigate the matter this Summer, <br />but may delay until after the Attorneys General meet. <br /> <br />Prospects for the proposed 160,000 acre Wolf River <br />watershed project in Northeast Kansas look dimmer than they <br />have in many years. The Wolf River originates about seven <br />miles southwest of Hiawatha in Brown County and empties <br />into the Missouri River in Doniphan County. The SCS reports <br /> <br />@ <br />