Northern Colorado water conservancy district, South Platte River basin, Colorado

The Northern Colorado Conservancy District a quasi-municipal corporation formed under the Water Conservancy District Act of the State of Colorado is described. The District manages the waters of the South Platte River basin in Colorado under its powers to acquire water and rights of way for certain water works, to contract with the United States or otherwise provide for the construction of water facilities, to assume contractual or bonded indebtedness and to administer, operate, maintain, conserve, control, allocate, and distribute water supplies in the district and to have authority to derive revenues needed to accomplish its purposes. The major U.S. organization with which the District contracts is the U.S. Water and Power Resources Service of the Departament of Interior. The District's most direct management function is to allocate annually the available supplies of water among the priority users in the District. A unified river basin management approach is needed in the South Platte basin to achieve optimum use of the available water supplies. Such a system is informally in existence in the form of Conservancy Districts on certain tributaries but it is not river basin wide. Implementation of a broader river basin management authority will require many years of political effort and additional confidence in the methodologies and techniques used in water resources management

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	105082 PHIPPS, E.F., 2688 American Water Resources Association, Minnesota (EUA), 39086 Unified River Basin Management Symposium Gatlinburg, Tennessee (EUA) 4-7 May 1980
Format:	biblioteca
Published:	Minneapolis, Minn. (EUA) 1981
Subjects:	MANEJO DE CUENCAS, CUENCA RIO PLATTE, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA,
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