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. . . ST A TE OF COLORADO Colorado Water Conservation Board Department of Natural Resources 1:'\ n Sherman Street, Room 721 DL'llver, Colorado 8020:'\ Pholle: (:'\0:'\) 866-:'\441 FAX: (3m) 866-4474 \\' w\\' .c\\'cb.sta te.co. use MEMORANDUM Bill Owens Governor To: Colorado Water Conservation Board Russell George Executive Director Rod Kuharich CWCB Director From: Rod Kuharich, Director Rick Brown, Section Chief Intrastate Water Management & Development Dan McAuliffe Deputy Director Date: November 13, 2006 Subject: Agenda Item 11 m, November 13-15 Board Meeting, Statewide Water Supply Initiative - Consumptive Water Needs Analysis (Gap) The Intrastate Water Management and Development Section is requesting $500,000 from the Construction Fund to continue to evaluate projects statewide that would help address the water supply gap between the projects and planning processes being pursued by water providers (Statewide Water Supply Initiative IP&Ps) and the total amount of water needed to meet Colorado's demand by the year 2030. The funds would be used to: · Update ex isting reconnaissance studies of projects; · Continue to review the economic and engineering feasibility of projects; · Enter into Intergovernmental Agreements with project sponsors, as appropriate; · Coordinate efforts between CWCB and the !BCC; . Involve interested parties; · Pay associated cOllsulting costs; · Keep the General Assembly informed and make anllual reports to the CWCB. These annual reports would, in-turn, be published on the CWCB's web site: and · Based on the annual reporting, the CWCB would make determinations about future reviews and recommendations. The request is based on the Statewide Water Supply Initiative, Section II. The action word in Statewide Water Supply Initiative was initiative. While the CWCB was directed to complete SWSI and deliver its tindings and recommendations to the General Assembly in 18-months, implementing the SWSI will take years and decades.