april 10 South Platte Basin Roundtable Meeting

• Basin Roundtable: South Platte
• Title: Minutes
• Date: 4/10/2007
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

Jerke: motion needed?

Hecox: yes, we need direction if this is where we are going.

McVicker: Mr. Chair: I move that the South Platte Basin Roundtable
allocate the remaining 1400 money, approximately $85,000, to complete
the scope of refined needs assessment needs as presented in the South
Platte Roundtable Needs Assessment Refinements, dated April 10, 2007.
Specifically, that the scope of work shall fit the 1400 budget remaining
and that "the refinements to the Water Supply Needs Assessment, over
and above the SWSI Phase 1 Study, will be completed as follows:
--Items one through four (concerning: 1) Competing Water Supply
Projections, 2) Unappropriated Water, 3) Current vs. Historic
Administration, and 4) Consumable Effluent Reuse) will be funded by
HB-1400 funding available.

Harold Evans: Second

Jerke: Discussion and questions: would this address off main stem?
Hecox: Yes
Lisa Darling: Is this what you are seeing: broad qualitative studies instead
of quantitative studies?
Hecox: Yes, Gunnison roundtable and one other have identified discreet
tasks which can be accomplished with 1400 monies; other roundtables
have presented laundry list of needs; here, this roundtable seems
comfortable with what we need.
John Metlie: What about study for Upper Mountain Counties?
Hecox: Would like to address that later on in agenda.
Harold Evans: Recall that last September we sent letter to DNR to
identify these four tasks plus non-consumptive plus Upper Counties plus
Republican River Study; item 1 comes out of SW ASI phase 1; no 2:
unappropriated water is specifically in the Act; no. 3 comes primarily from
lower river because of changes in administration; no. 4 because it is
known that upstream will be using effluent: thus, all four were requests
from last fall; then, when consultants said that these studies would cost
more money that we had, we had to consider our options to fund these
studies from our 179 funds; we decided that it would be more sensible to
direct 179 monies to projects where we can create wet water.
Jerke: Will these studies be useful at all? How will these really get us
toward water development?
Hecox: three directions for group:
1) No more needs assessment; then we can use that $85,000 to further
needs assessment and to help other roundtables;
2) We have identified seven unanswered questions; this approach allows
the consultants to answer four of these questions;

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