Times Independent | 1976-09-09 | Page 10 | Colorado River Water Distribution Subject of Coming Seminar

Colorado River Water Distribution Subject of Coming Seminar The Sierra Club southwest regional conservation committee commit-tee is sponsoring a workshop on Water Supply and Distribution Distribu-tion in ihe Colorado River System Saturday, Sept. 11. The conference will be held in Room 153 of the administration administra-tion building of Fort Lewis College, Durango. Co., beginning begin-ning at 9 a.m. All interested persons are invited to attend. Subject background will be presented during the morning session. Henry P. Caulfield, Jr., professor of political science at Colorado State University, will present a historical analysis of changing values, policies, and institutions institut-ions on the Colorado River. He is a former director of the U.S. Water Resources Council, and former director of resources programs staff for the Department Depart-ment of the Interior under Stewart Udall. A longterm view of quantification quantifi-cation studies and conclusions through tree ring analysis will be presented by Charles W. Stockton, assistant professor of hydrology, department of hydrology and laboratory of tree ring research at the University of Arizona. A presentation of the affect of salinity on availability will be given by John W. Keves, III, chief of the Colorado River Water Quality Office, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver. He is a hydrologist who has been involved with the bureau's water resource planning for 13 years. Following a lunch break the afternoon session will deal with viewpoints on best future use of the Colorado River. A state's point of view will be presented by Daniel F. Lawrence, Law-rence, director of water resources for the Utah State Division of Water Resources. Lawrence is a registered engineer and has served with the Soil Conservation Service and Corps of Engineers. He has been with the Utah Division of Water Resources since 1956, its director since 1967, and is the governor's appointee to the Interstate Stream Commission. A talk entitled An Energy Intensive Scenerio will be given by Ken Kaufman, assistant chief of the Bureau of Reclamation's division of planning plan-ning coordination, at its engineering and research center cen-ter in Denver. Kaufman is an engineer with 27 years of planning experience which includes services as principal staff member with the interagency inter-agency task force which produced the Western U.S. Water Plan Study, and as chairman of the Department of Interior's Water for Energy Management Team. An economist's point of view will be given by William Schulze, assistant professor of economics in the area of environment and natural resources re-sources at the University of New Mexico, and investigator with Lake Powell Research Project and the National Science Foundation research project on solar and geother-mal geother-mal energy. An environmentalist's scenario scen-ario will be given by John A. McComb, southwest regional represenf-tive and hydrology consultant to the Sierra Club since 1970. His responsibilities include following water res ource and energy developments, develop-ments, and protection and management of federal lands in the Four Corners states.. The conference will conclude conc-lude with a questions and discussion period at 3:05 p.m. Anyone wishing further information infor-mation prior to the conference is asked to contact Betsy Barnett at [phone] during dur-ing the day or [phone] evenings.