Laserfiche WebLink
<br />operations of the Green Mountain Reservoir are: <br /> <br />1. To preserve the vested and future rights [of the West <br />Slope] in irrigation. <br /> <br />2. To preserve the fishing and recreational facilities and <br />the scenic attractions of Grand Lake, the Colorado River, <br />and the Rocky Mountain National Park. <br /> <br />3. To preserve the present surface elevations of the water <br />in Grand Lake and to prevent a variation in these elevations <br />greater than their normal fluctuation. <br /> <br />4. To so conserve and make use of these <br />irrigation, power, industrial development, <br />purposes, as to create the greatest benefits. <br /> <br />waters for <br />and other <br /> <br />5. To maintain conditions of river flow for the benefit of <br />domestic and sanitary uses of this water.6l <br /> <br />Other conditions of the agreement provided that diversions would <br /> <br />be subject to the provisions of the Colorado River Compact, that <br /> <br />an irrigation system for meadow lands in the vicinity of <br /> <br />Kremmling would be provided, that the domestic water supplies of <br /> <br />Kremmling and Hot Sulphur Springs would be protected and that <br /> <br />Grand County would be paid $100,000 for estimated loss of tax <br /> <br />revenues from the lands to be innundated.62 <br /> <br />The need in Colorado to have enti ties capable 0 f en ter i ng <br /> <br />into repayment contracts with the Bureau of Reclamation for large <br /> <br />water projects led to the passage of the Water Conservancy Act ~f <br /> <br />1937.63 <br /> <br />This law permitted creation of special conservancy <br /> <br />districts with authority to tax all property within their <br /> <br />Thompson Project (1958), esp. pp. 15-16. <br />61Hobbs, supra note 55 at 9-10. <br />62Dille, supra note 59, at 16. <br />63Ch. 266, 1937 Colo. Sess. Laws 1309. <br /> <br />26 <br />