april 10 South Platte Basin Roundtable Meeting

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

Project is for 13 providers on east slope; analysis of participant demand
and supply; shortages will begin to appear in 2010; thus, even with
project, there will still be a gap for these water providers.

--Windy Gap Project Permitting (see handout)

--Current Windy Gap Flow Limits (see handout)
--Water quality in Three Lakes: EIS addresses water quality because CBT
brings water from Frasier Lake so impact is being studied

--Estimated Project Costs: Total: $220,000,000 (dam = 128,000)
--Time Frame: Final EIS: Spring 2008; Construction: 2010-2013
NEPA began in 2003, thus, 10 year project.

Questions:
Diane Hoppe: Return flows anywhere?
Jeff Baker: Yes, this water will be reused by participants
Hecox: One of the purposes of these presentations is to motivate
Roundtable to think about whether roundtable process might be able to
add value to this kind of project, or to steer away from them.
Wilkinson: Question has come up whether we should take this to CO
River Roundtable; Northern is against that; this was started before 1177
process; NEP A process will define the impact; Northern sees this as a
completion of the Windy Gap Project that commenced in 1980; terminal
storage was initially envisioned; participants, instead, have decided to
come together to go forward with a single storage project.
Opines that ifIBCC process moves forward in projects like this, needs to
be beneficial not problematic;
Jerke: Beneficial for this roundtable to write a letter of support in the
NEP A process?
Wilkinson: We would welcome this; we would hope that the roundtable
would see this as beneficial for the basin in an entirety.

2) Northern Integrated Supply Project: NISP: NCWCD
Carl Brower presents:
--towards end ofNEP A process;
-- NISP driven by 16 participants (Ft. Collins, etc)
(notable exceptions: larger cities and Windy Gap participants because
most have water supplies or projects they are working on)
--Approximate NISP participant future additional water needs: 40,000 acft
by 2025; 80,000 acft by 2050; 40,000 acft from NISP
--proposed facilities: Glade Reservoir NW ofFT Collins (similar to Horse
Tooth) AND South Platte Water Conservation Project (would pump water
from river all year; 1992 conditional water right for this; thus, hopes for
river to return)
Ideal Cement Plant recently decommissioned;

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