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<br />Ray-if ice dams are a concern, then goal of establishing fisheries may be an issue <br />without a connection between Alamosa and Rio Grande, what happens at the tail <br />end-where does the water go? -won't make it-from CR 10 20+ miles <br />-re $37,000 part of the request-doesn't appear to be related to spillway-but modeling <br />to help group look at water tights admin and which might be best suited for conversion <br />to instream flows <br /> <br />John Shawcroft-pointed out that will not involved increasing capacity of dam, just <br />restoring whole capacity <br /> <br />Dale P-where would water rights purchase funds come from? Is that possible? <br /> <br />Cindy-money from Natural Resource fund-after January, will be aggressively looking <br />for water-working with CO Water Trust <br /> <br />JB- asked about 2000AF cushion- <br /> <br />Steve-many times because of snowpack, DWR has asked Terrace to evacuate water <br />early in season and then catch later-sent down, used - voluntary effort for flood control <br /> <br />Travis-when they do acquire senior rights and go to water court for change of use, <br />what reception expected from community? opposition anticipated? <br /> <br />Ron-so far not a lot of negative response from community-many public meetings- <br />always will be some opposition when changing a water right-trying to be sure to not <br />injure anyone before even applying <br /> <br />Travis- CWCB supports in stream flow-but also there are issues about them in an <br />over-appropriated basin <br /> <br />Charlie S.-having reviewed proposal-has questions and problems-and has spoken <br />with Rod and others-thinks now that assuming a 4" rain would produce 80,000 sec' - <br />biggest ever 5000sec'-asked if fix spillway <br /> <br />Mike G-study is to develop better, more realistic numbers <br /> <br />Rod-this modeling is already being used in other locations and believe state will <br />accept numbers <br /> <br />Mike S. - confirmed this <br /> <br />Charlie- also has concern about practicality of acquiring a senior water right <br /> <br />Mike G-until we try, we don't know-but not a reason to not try-still would have a res <br />that could hold additional water-study will allow Terrace to seek funding to fix spillway <br /> <br />Page 6 of 11 <br /> <br />RGBRT <br /> <br />Minutes <br /> <br />December 12, 2006 <br />