Show COLORADO TAKES TAU ru S reclamation PROBLEMS BEFORE RE CITIZENS the colorado wat water e r conservation boards policy of bringing major water issues directly to the people will be put into high gear early in october when a series serles of field meetings in various sections of the state will be held to discuss and analyze the proposed comprehensive program for regulatory reservoirs in the upper colorado river basin the res reservoir ervol r program has recently been submitted to the state by the bureau of reclamation under a report entitled colorado river storage project and participating projects judge clifford Cliffor dH H stone denver ve r director of the colorado water conservation board announced a schedule of state meetings as follows craig monday oct ocl 3 grand Jund junction tion tut tui tuesday raday oct 4 durango thursday oct 6 pueblo saturday oct 8 denver monday oct 10 the region 4 office of the bureau of reclamation located at salt lake city prepared the bureau report which w ich contemplates the development of major reg regulatory ulato ry reservoir sites which would constitute tho the backbone of a compre comprehensive hensl v L plan and make possible the construction of a large number of smaller projects the Colo coio colorado rado rago river storage project program is timely and highly important judge stone commented and is of special CO concern heern to the state of colorado th the e purpose of the M meetings in oc october tober will be to explain the report and to obtain views of local people regarding it E 0 larson director of region 4 bureau of reclamation 8 has stated that he and other representatives from his salt lake cly office will attend the series of colorado meetings to present the bureau of reclamations explanations pla nations of the colorado river storage project all of the state meetings will be attended by judge stone and other representatives of 0 the colorado water conservation board the state water board 0 will pr prepare the official state comments on the colorado river storage project plan after local views and arid opinions have beere beeri made known at these meetings and further consideration of the program has been made by the colorado water conservation board in the light of the expressed local reactions |