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

The next water quality-water quantity coordination meeting will be held at the DOA on December 4,
2006.

Drought Update - Office of Water Conservation & Drought Planning: The 2006 water year ended up
being one in which much of the State was in some level of drought - from abnormally dry to extreme
drought. Currently the eastern plains and northeast portion of the State continue to suffer from severe
drought conditions in spite of recent beneficial monsoonal rains. The rest of the State is experiencing
abnormally dry to moderate drought conditions. The next meeting of the Governor's Water Availability
Task Force (W A TF) is scheduled for Thursday, September 21,2006,9:30 - 11 :30am at Denver Water.
The meeting will focus on preliminary snow pack forecasts for the upcomihg winter as well as current
reservoir levels and streamflows. Water supply impacts from persistent drought conditions to the
agricultural and municipal sectors will also be discussed. A future meeting of the WATF, to potentially
occur in NovemberlDecember will look at possible revisions and updates to the Colorado Drought
Mitigation & Response Plan.

A September 5,2006 U.S. Drought Monitor Map can be found in the attachment section of this report.

CWO A 2006 Annual Conference Planned: The CWOA 2006 Annual Conference will be held in
Steamboat Springs September 27-29,2006 at the Steamboat Grand Resort Hotel. The conference is
entitled "Water's Last Frontier". See the CWOA website at www.coloradowaterofficials.com for more
conference information.

Colorado Water Congress 2006 Meetings:

. CWC Seminar and Workshop Schedule: The Colorado Water Congress prepares a series of four
to eight workshops each year for the purpose of increasing and updating water knowledge both
for the actively involved water community and general public knowledge. The seminar and
workshops for 2006 will all be held in the Colorado Water Congress Conference Room, 1580
Logan Street, Suite 400, Denver, Colorado. The 2006 programs and registration forms are posted
on the CWC's website. CLE credits will be shown on the forms for the workshops when
awarded.

. The 49th CWC Annual Convention will be January 25 - 26, 2007 at the DIA Hotel and John Q.
Hammonds Convention Center, 15500 East 40th Ave., Denver.

31st Annual Colorado Water Workshop Held: The 31 sl Annual Colorado Water Workshop was held
July 26-28, at Western State College of Colorado in Gunnison. The CWCB had its booth set up and
information on our programs to distribute.

Colorado Riparian Association Seminar Scheduled: The Colorado Riparian Association is presenting
a Seminar Entitled "Sustaining Colorado Watersheds: Science and Restoration through Collaboration" in
Summit County on October 4-6. Contact: [e-mail] or call 303-499-1092 for more
information.

Arkansas River Basin

Arkansas River Compact Administration (ARCA): On August 28 - 29 Hal Simpson and I met with
David Pope in Topeka for the second round of the ARCA Special Engineering Committee created at the
Dec. 2005 Annual Meeting. Staff from both states continued to develop the factual and policy basis for
numerous contested accounting issues under the 1980 Operating Plan for John Martin Reservoir. We are
nearing final agreement on several issues and developed pathways to lead to resolution on several others,
however the States agreed to keep the substance of their discussions confidential. We will be meeting

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