South Platte Basin Roundtable Nov 14 minutes.d

• Basin Roundtable: South Platte
• Title: Minutes
• Date: 11/14/2006
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

--Silt has decreased storage capacity by 40-60%; hydraulic dredging offers
possibility without draining of reservoirs; hydraulic dredging can dredge to 25'
without dismptions of reservoir cycle;

IV. Water Rights Modeling between Black Hawk and Central City:
Presented by Rick Parsons with Leonard Rice

CDSS website (cdss.state.co.us) has centralized water data base; data and models
to evaluate alternative water development and strategies; site has state model for
surface water; site has location information; water rights information; ownership
information; etc.
--Case study: Upper North Clear Creek model: how to enhance overall yield
--Summary: identify potential project in which the towns can work together

V. Water Activities for Water Supply Reserve Account Funding
--Process for management and presentation of potential projects for roundtable
consideration: establish a methodology? nomination subcommittee? other?
Eric Wilkinson: re: criteria and guidelines:
1) projects have to be reviewed by the roundtable within which the water is
being diverted;
2) CWBC asks roundtable for recommendations and considers projects based on
the degree of support fi-om the roundtable; CWBC wants to know of dissent
and why: preference to projects where consensus has been built;
3) The criteria asks fro a report thus the idea of minority report that would
articulate opposition would be good;
4) Application and criteria have been emailed to everyone;

Mike Shimmin: Motion to establish a mle that requires any entity or individual to
provide a completed application to every member of the Roundtable one week
prior to the meeting at which time the application will be considered
Bob Stencil: Second
Motion carries unanimously

--Consideration of specific water activities:
1) Joint project with Colorado, Arkansas and Metro Roundtables to identify
alternatives for providing 10,825 acft to the 15 mile reach for endangered species
compliance: Janet Bell speaks to the cooperative nature of the concept and how it
could provide a permanent answer to the 50/50 split between the South Platte and
Arkansas for compliance with the endangered species act; this would include 4
roundtables: South Platte, Metro, Arkansas and Colorado
--to date, Denver Water has been providing 50% and would like to get
roundtables to take over;
--Eric Wilkinson comment: By 2009, must have 10,589 ac ft in place; Arkansas
Roundtable will discuss; we need a resolution fi-om the Roundtable in order to
find solution;

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