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• Board Meeting Date: 5/23/2007
• Description: Director's Report - CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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The salary range for this position is to be cominensurate with experience and necessary
training. A benefit package offered by the Disbct is competitive with comparable water
resources management positions. !

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Applications for the position of General Manager of the Dolores Water Conservancy
District will be accepted through June 25, 200,7. Immediately following that date a
screening and interview process will begin. Interested individuals should submit their
resume and letter of application to: Dolores Wkter Conservancy District, "General
Manager Search", P.O. Box 1150, Cortez, CO,! 81321. Additional information may be
obtained by calling the District at 970-565-756~.
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The Dolores Water Conservancy District is an pqual Opportunity Employer. All qualified
applicants will be considered. I
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Navajo-Gallup DEIS: The u.s. Bureau of Reblamation released a Draft Planning
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Report and Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply
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Project for review and comment on March 30, 4007. The proposed project would deplete
approximately 35,893 acre-feet of water annualiy from the San Juan River (Navajo
Nation 27,193 acre-feet, Jicarilla Apache Nation! 1,200 acre-feet and City of Gallup 7,500
acre-feet). The Preferred Alternative would di~ert water downstream of Fruitland, New
Mexico, just above the existing Public Service Company of New Mexico diversion
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structure, treat it to drinking water standards ~d deliver it to Navajo Chapters and
communities south of River. The estimated cost of the Project is $716,100,000 based on
March 2005 dollars. Public meetings will be he* May 22-24, 2007 in Gallup,
Crownpoint and the St. Michael's and on June 5r6, 2007 in Shiprock and Farmington
respectively. Comments are due June 28, 2007. More information is available on the
USBR-Upper Colorado Region web Page. i
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Proposed Long Hollow Reservoir - Operati~g MOA concerning fishery
bypasses: The La Plata Water Conservancy District intends to construct Long Hollow
Reservoir ("LHR"), an on-stream Reservoir, wit~ a planned capacity of 5,400 acre-feet,
on Long Hollow, a tributary to the La Plata Rivei. The reservoir site is approximately 22
miles southwest of Durango, Colorado. In order Ito maintain habitat for Colorado-listed
native aquatic species of concern, in this instancelprimarily the round tail chub (also
listed as an endangered fish in New Mexico), in t~e La Plata River below its confluence
with Long Hollow a flow of 4 cis has been deterrrlined by the CDOW to be appropriate.
As part of the operating plan for LHR, criteria we~e developed to provide for fishery
flows during the La Plata River Compact Non-Cobpact period (December 1 through
February 14). Board staff cooperated with the Sta~e Engineers Office, Colorado Division
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of Wildlife, the La Plata Water Conservancy District and the Southwestern Water
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