WSP05210

• File Number: 8543
• Description: Closed Basin Division
• State: CO
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Water Division: 3
• Date: 4/22/1985
• Title: Agenda Item 15 - May 1985 - Board Meeting -- Closed Basin Project - Stage 5 Wells
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Board Memo

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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
721 STATE CENTENNIAL BUILDING
1313 SHERMAN STREET
DENVER, CO B0203

May 3, 1985

RES 0 L UTI 0 N

WHEREAS, Public Law 92-514, as amended by Public Law 96-375,
authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, hereinafter referred to
as the IISecretarYJ II to cons'truct, operate, and maintain the
Closed Basin Division, San Luis Valley Project, Colorado, herein-
after referred to as the "project"; and

WHEREAS, Section lOl(b) of said public law provides that:
"Construction of the project may be undertaken in such units or
stages as in the determination of the Secretary will best serve
project requirements and meet water needs: Provided, that
construction of each of the successive units or stages after
stage 1 of said project shall be undertaken only with the consent
of the Colorado Water Conservation Board and the Rio Grande Water
Conservation District.. ."; and

WHEREAS, the Secretary, acting through the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation, desires to initiate the drilling of salvage wells
and the acquisition of land needed for such wells in stage 5 of
the project in federal fiscal year 1986 in order that such wells
might be pump tested so that data can be obtained for the subse-
quent design of pumps and distribution pipes; and

WHEREAS, all such wells will be capped after test pumping
and not placed into production until the Colorado Water Conserva-
tion Board and the Rio Grande Water Conservation District consent
to the same.

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board in regular session assembled at Denver,
Colorado, this 3rd day of ~Iay, 1985, that the Board does hereby
consent to the drilling of salvage wells and the acquisition of
the land needed for such wells in stage 5 of the project so long
as: (1) all such wells are capped after being pumped tested and
not put into production until the consent of the Colorado Water
Conservation Board and the Rio Grande Water Conservation District
has been given to place such wells in production, (2) the project
proceeds in substantial conformity with the Definite Plan Report
for said project, (3) the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation proceeds
with diligence in the construction of stages 1-2, 3, and 4 of the
project, and (4) construction of such wells is in compliance with
applicable state law.

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