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• Board Meeting Date: 9/20/2006
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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supports the Statewide Water Supply Initiative (SWSI) and the 1177 Roundtables and feels they are a
good starting point for water issues. He said Beauprez supports conservation and more efficient use of
water and said the majority of water used for domestic purposes is used to water their grass. He said
Colorado might implement plans like in the state of Nevada where people are paid to tear up lawns.

Ritter was critical of Beauprez's support for referendum A, a statewide ballot measure in 2004 to build
more water storage in the state. He said that the referendum did not have any way to put a check on
transmountain diversions.

Bratton defended Beauprez's backing of the ballot measure but said the candidate's support of the
initiative did not mean he supported transmountain diversions.

Tamarisk Control Update: We have issued a $50,000 purchase order to the Tamarisk Coalition, using
severance tax funds, to complete the mapping and inventory across the rest of the State and to develop
user-friendly graphical products which local watershed groups can use to plan and monitor small scale
control products. There has been no significant movement on HR-2770, the federal legislation which
authorizes the Secretary of Interior to assess the level of infestation, water savings potentials, and a
variety of demonstration projects. Staff will be attending the Annual Meeting of the Tackling Tamarisk
on the Purgatoire group on September 28 as we continue to encourage watershed based control plans to
move forward. On October 3-4 staffwill attend a scientific conference addressing invasive phreatophytes
hosted by CSU in Ft. Collins. Topics include channel capacity and morphology issues, mapping
protocols and water consumption estimating methods.

Colorado Watershed Protection Fund (CWPF). Staff will present the joint CWCB-WQCD-CW A
funding recommendation to the CWPF designees on September 13, 2006. The joint recommendation
includes funding recommendation for all four applications received in 2006. The CWPF Designees have
full authority from the Board and WQCC to make decision regarding all aspects of the CWPF. We will
update the Board at the November 2006 meeting.

Annual Watershed Conference Scheduled: The annual watershed conference, sponsored by the
Colorado Riparian Association and other partners, will be held October 4-6 in Breckenridge. If you have
an interest in this topic additional information may be found at
http://coloradoriparian.orglSustaining%20Colorado%20W atersheds.pdf

Water Quality-Water Quantity Coordination Meeting. Water quality/quantity issues relating to
agriculture were among the main topics of discussion. The CDPHE created the Environmental
Agriculture Program (Ag Program) in 2005 by merging the WQCD's Animal Feeding Operations
Program with the Air Quality Agricultural Program. The Ag Program addresses the handling of animal
manure and nutrients, and looks for opportunities to incorporate pollution prevention. The Ag Program
encompasses the state's regulatory/permitting programs for Housed Commercial Swine Feeding
Operations (HCSFO) and Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAPO) and the handling of animal
manure and nutrients. Many of the requirements are based on preventing run off containing high nutrient
levels from entering into surface water or contaminating groundwater. The emerging issues include
potential augmentation requirements in the face of water quality regulations' zero discharge requirements
for stormwater runoff and water uses within feedlot operations. The Ag Program staff will set a meeting
with the staff at the DWR and DOA to address these issues.

Other topics that were discussed included the upcoming WQCC temperature standards rulemaking
hearing, water quality-water quantity issues concerning produced waters resulted from oil and gas
production operation, and issues regarding water transfers and discharge permits.

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