WSP06327

• File Number: 8220.129.J
• Description: Upper Gunnison Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Gunnison
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 11/1/1962
• Author: CWCB and USDA
• Title: Water and Related Land Resources - Gunnison River Basin - Colorado - Nov 1962 - Part 1 of 2
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE

U.S.D.A. FIELD ADVISORY COMMITTEE
GUNNISON RIV~R BASIN
321 New Custom House
Denver 2, Colorado

October 4, 1962

Honorable Stephen L. R. McNichols
Governor of Colorado
Denver, Colorado

Dear Governor McNichols:

The attached United States Department of Agriculture report presents
information regarding opportuni.ties for watershed protection, flood
prevention and water resource development in the Gunnison River Basin of
Colorado. It is submitted as a report on participation by the Department
of Agriculture in a cooperative survey with the Colorado Water Conser-
vati.on Board.

This cooperative survey was undertaken in response to a request from the
Colorado Water Conservation Board dated February 10, 1961, for cooperation
by the Department of Agriculture in such a survey. The Department's part
of the cooperative survey included the development and presentation in
cooperation with the Colorado Water Conservation Board of the material
contained in this report.

Department of Agriculture participation in the survey was under the
provisions of Section 6 of P. L. 566, 83rd Congress, as amended, which
authorized the Department to cooperate with other Federal, State, and local
agencies in making investigations and surveys of the watersheds of rivers
as a basis for the development of coordinated programs.

This investigation and survey is coordinated with the study and reports
of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, relating to the several tributary
basins of the Colorado River Basin of western Colorado. It presents
information obtained from cooperative investigations by the Economic Research
Service, Forest Service and Soil Conservation Service of the Deps.rtment,of
Agriculture and by the Colorado Water Conservation Board of the State of
Colorado.

This is a report of a reconnaissance investigation and survey which we
believe covers the assignment of the Department of Agriculture as provided
in the Plan of Work for the Gunnison River Basin study.

Sincerely y\>urs,
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