BOARD0215

• Board Meeting Date: 5/20/2002
• Description: OWCDP Section - Colorado Drought & Water Supply Assessment
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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STATE OF COLORADO

Colorado Water Conservation Board

Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
www.cwcb.state.co.us

MEMORANDUM

Bill Owens
Governor

RE:

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members
Dan McAuliffe, Larry Lang, Brad Lundahl
May 10, 2002
Agenda Item # 15 - Colorado Drought & Water Supply
Assessment

Greg E. Walcher
Executive Director

TO:
FROM:
DATE:

Rod Kuharich
CWCB Director

Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

Update on the Drouaht & Water Supplv Assessment Proiect

Phase I of the project will be completed this month. Phase I has included:

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. Developing project and related fact sheets to aid in publicizing the Assessment and the current
drought conditions persistent statewide.
. Developing and initiating a media campaign to create public and water supplier awareness of the
project.
. Obtaining and manipulating state provided databases including HydroBase from the SEO to develop
the Assessment participant list.
. Beginning the process of identifying the types and locations of Assessment participants statewide,
basin-by-basin.

The key project issues that the Board needs to be aware of includes:

1. The project team needs Board member support in publicizing the Assessment at future board
meetings (other than the CWCB) and other speaking opportunities that the Board members attend.
We have created a speakers package (attached) containing talking points and fact sheets for your
reference. We will also update the calendar of upcoming events that either Board or Board staff will
be attending through the end of the year.

2. The Assessment will be developed and tested during Phase II of the project, which will occur
between now and October. The Assessment participant list, the first task that needs to be completed
before development of the Assessment begins, has begun with the aid of HydroBase. A summary of
the data evaluated to date is as follows:

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. There are roughly 131,000 "structures" in the state diverting, storing, augmenting and/or
otherwise using water as recorded in the SEO database.
. The structures are owned/controlled by roughly 21,000 entities.

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