North Platte amended September 26 Minutes

• Basin Roundtable: North Platte
• Title: Minutes
• Date: 9/26/2006
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

North Platte Basin Roundtable Meeting 9-26-06

the photos and data with that the South Platte group is formulating. It is evident that
updated photos and imagery are needed to improve estimate accuracy.
. Non consumptive uses include environmental and recreation uses. The next IBCC
meeting is in Steamboat Springs on October 18th and after the IBCC meeting the
Yampa/White Basin Roundtable will host a presentation from the Environmental and
Recreation group of SWSI II. In addition, the DOW will be presenting their maps and
data files for GIS layers that they can make available for roundtables. They will also be
identifying where they have gaps in information. Kent encourages everyone to attend
and will send time and meeting details out for those interested.
. The engineering firm to be hired for technical assistance has still not been selected. As
soon as they are hired, we will invite them to meet with us to help us move forward to
formulate our needs assessment and submission of task orders.
. We again emphasized the need to find out how much, where and what time of year we
may have unappropriated water in the North Park River Basin.
. We will address gaps of information regarding all consumptive and non-consumptive
uses in the needs assessment.
. Questions arose and lengthy discussions ensued regarding concepts such as minimum
stream flows, the process for filing unappropriated water, augmenting flows to enhance
stream habitat, adding a beneficial use to adjudicated uses, water storage, diversions,
etc. Points raised emphasize the need to go through the proper procedures to acquire
permits and permission to proceed with projects. These questions also emphasize the
need for more education on these topics in order for us to gain a better understanding of
feasible projects to consider for this basin.

Regarding potential projects, it is expected that our needs assessment will reveal projects
important for us to pursue or consider. It's likely we will have a good handle on what projects
will be brought forward. As a roundtable, we should be thinking of potential eligible applicants
to bring projects forward for consideration. Any projects we do in the North Platte Basin will
benefit our basin and will also benefit the State of Colorado.

IBCC Report to the Legislature
The IBCC will submit a progress report to the Colorado Legislature by Oct 31. Kent shared an
outline of what is requested in the report. All Roundtables are encouraged to submit basin
progress reports to be included in the IBCC report. Our North Platte Basin Roundtable agrees
we should submit a report. The repOli will include progress made on developing our operating
procedures, a description of educational efforts, progress toward our needs assessment, items we
will likely request in our task orders to the engineering contractor when they are secured and any
other information or major issues we want to include. Kent Crowder, Deb Alpe and others who
wish to participate will work on a 2-3 page report addressing these items and will submit it to the
IBCC by October 13th to be included in the IBCC progress report to the Legislature. Contact
Kent if you would like to assist with the report.

Next Meeting will be Tuesday October 24th from 7-9 p.m. at the Forest Service.
Subsequent meetings for 2006 are scheduled as follows:
11-28-06: 7-9 p.m. at the Forest Service
12-19-06: 3-5 p.m. at the Forest Service

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