BOARD00054 ‎(2)‎

• Board Meeting Date: 11/13/2006
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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over several months. The opposite condition, when the water is cooler, is called La Nina. El Nino events
ordinarily come around every three to eight years and can vary in strength, but its strength is gaining this
year. Typically after a wet and snowy fall in Colorado, El Nino brings about a mid-winter dry spell, and
then often a recovery late in spring bringing things back to near normal. With El Nino in Colorado, there
are typically less windstorms and fewer Arctic cold spells.

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Upcoming Colorado CUmate Variability Meeting: Western Water Assessment (WW A) is coordinating
a meeting to discuss climate change planning efforts among Front Range water providers, including
Denver Water. WW A was created in 1999 and is a joint effort between the Cooperative Institute for
Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado and the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate Diagnostics Center. The meeting will be held on Friday,
November 17, 2006, 9:00am - 2:00pm. Approximately 20 attendees from key water entities are expected
to attend. Please check the CWCB website for more details, including the location ofthe meeting.

Groundwater Commission Meeting: The Colorado Groundwater Commission will meet in
Denver on November 17, 2006.

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

CWC Workshop: The Colorado Water Congress 2006 Workshop on Legal Ethics In Water and
Environmental Law will be presented November 20,2006 at the Conference Room at 1580 Logan Street,
Suite 400, Denver, Colorado. CLE credits will be shown on the registration form.

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CWC Annual Convention: The Colorado Water Congress 49th Annual Convention will be held January
25 - 26, 2007 at the Denver International Airport Hotel and John Q. Hammonds Convention Center in
Denver. The program and registration forms will be posted at the CWC website in November.

Arkansas River Basin

Arkansas River Compact Administration (ARCA): On October 18-19 Hal Simpson and I met with
David Pope and his staff in Denver for the third round of the ARCA Special Engineering Committee
which was created at the December 2005 Annual Meeting. 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. AReA will be meeting by teleconference on November 8
to discuss procedures for receiving and adopting the Special Committee's recommendations and removing
the confidentiality restriction. The Special Committee expects to bring completed recommendations to
the ARCA for formal action at the 2006 Annual Meeting. A fourth round of Special Engineering Comrn.
meetings has been scheduled for Topeka on December 19 and 20, 2006 and the Comm. will be
recommending that it be authorized to continue its work in 2007. Colorado officials and our ARCA
representatives will also be meeting in Pueblo on November 8 to plan and coordinate for the 2006 ARCA
Annual Meeting to be held in Lamar on December 11-12, 2006.

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Kansas v Colorado Litigation Account Update: The large Iysimeter is now essentially complete at
approximately the contract price of $193,000. The O&M funds we are providing will not cover operation
beyond 2007 and the State Engineers Office is trying to address this need through cooperative funding
requests to the CWWRI and the Lower Arkansas Valley WCD. Discussions with CSU regarding
construction of the smaller reference lysimeter in 2007 now need to be accelerated. We expect that
savings from the CoAgMet weather station upgrade portion of the project and the remaining $57,000
balance in the Iysimeter budget will be sufficient for this purpose. We will be preparing an updated report
on use of these litigation account funds for submittal to the General Assembly in January 2007.

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