Download or read book Twenty-Second Biennial Report of the State Engineer to the Governor of Colorado written by Colorado Office of the State Engineer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Second Biennial Report of the State Engineer to the Governor of Colorado: For the Years 1923-1924 The duties of the State Engineer are numerous and varied. As head of the department charged with the administration of our public water supplies, he is required to decide numerous ques tions, all of which are based upon statutory provisions or court decrees which are not always free from ambiguity. Proper rulings and decisions necessarily demand that he have a well grounded general knowledge of our water laws and supreme court decisions relating thereto. As State guardian of all storage reservoirs, he should be highly qualified, through study and experience, to design and supervise the construction of important dams and engineering works, upon the safety of which depends human lives and immense property values. He is charged with the collection and publication of all in formation and data relative to our public water supplies upon which our major industry depends. This duty requires one trained in hydrographic studies, with a knowledge of present and future needs and possibilities of land and power development, and prob lems of water conservation and use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.