South Platte Basin Roundtable Minutes July 11M

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--directs funding in amount of$125,000 to conduct a study of technological and ecologically feasible sites in South Platte and AK basis; -study on artificial recharge: costs and benefits; --Must be submitted by March 1 2007 Summary: sustainable water management relies on the ability to store water: aquifer recharge and storage --technology is available --CO's aquifers have tremendous storage capacity --In addition to managing water supplies, aquifer storage project can meet a number of objectives --Additional source water exists for storage ACTION: Study must be submitted to legislative on March 1,2007 and the study will move forward with or without South Platte or AK roundtables; opportunity to take ownership; Recommendation: form broad-based ground water committee or form specific committee for this piece of legislation. Questions: Janet Bell: RE: Private Propelty Owner: how to determine private ownership Topper: Accounting System Bill Brown: Good presentation, questions: treated effluent: how can this be stored and kept; similarly, mnoff: this is also patt of the system Courtney Brand: Scope of investigation: limitations on scope? What about east slope/west slope storage? How do you deal with storage and delivery? Ralf Topper: Scope is to identify potential sites that would be both technically feasible without environmental impact; Richard Mann: how do we propose to maintain CO's interest in the Southeast part of the state; one could make argument that KS is pulling water out. Mike Shimmin: process and timing for study: money allocated to CWCB to do the study: has CWCB done the study: how do we interface with CWCB process? Ralf Topper: Board should consult with IBCC committee --preliminarily discussion with CWCB staff, decide who will do the studies; nothing yet determined Jerke: Ground water subcommittee needed: 3