Summary of Basin Roundtable Task Order Request

• Title: Summary of Basin Roundtable Task Order Requests
• Date: 3/15/2007
• IBCC - Doc Type: Needs Assessment & Technical Support

1.4 Gunnison Basin Roundtable
Summary of Gunnison Basin Roundtable Request
The Gunnison Basin Roundtable has requested that the following tasks be
completed:
1) Basin-wide - Review, refine, and/ or confirm the estimate of current and
future water demands and supply for the smaller municipalities, water districts
and domestic water companies in the Gunnison Basin

2) Basin-wide - Review and refine the estimate of current and future rural
domestic demands and supply in the Gunnison Basin.

3) Basin-wide - Identify vulnerabilities to water supply shortages for Gunnison
Basin municipalities.
4) Basin-wide - Perform an independent review of the agricultural shortages
identified in the SWSI report by enhancing spatial resolution, and extending the
period of record to include the recent extremely dry period of 2002-2004.

5) Basin-wide - Review and refine the analysis of existing physically and legally
available water supplies in the Gunnison Basin prepared by SWSI

6) Sub-basin Specific: Upper Gunnison - Review, refine, and/ or confirm the
estimate of future snowmaking demands in the Upper Gunnison Basin.

In addition, the Gunnison Basin Roundtable requested that a coordinated
statewide effort be made to identify and release existing databases which will be
used to describe environmental and recreational needs for each of the
roundtables. The roundtable requested that the use of this information should be
coordinated with the development and release of the SWSI 2 results.

Gunnison Basin Roundtable Tasks Authorized under Task Order 2007-003
During March 2007 through June 30, 2007 the Consultant will address Task 1,
Task 2, Task 3 and Task 6. Based on funding constraints, Task 2 will not fully be
completed but elements will be discussed with the needs assessment
subcommittee to further refine the elements to be completed under this task.

1) Basin-wide - Review, refine, and/ or confirm the estimate of current and
future water demands and supply for the smaller municipalities, water districts
and domestic water companies in the Gunnison Basin

The Consultant will investigate many of the smaller municipal areas of the
Gunnison Basin with respect to present and future water use. For example, some
small communities, including, but not limited to, the small municipalities and
small domestic water companies in the sub-basins of Surface Creek (Orchard