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high risk and this much at low risk. Those using the water to extinction are a t much <br />greater risk than someone who is just using it once and letting it go down the river. The <br />answer depends on assumptions. We need to have a dialogue that includes West and East <br />Slope about risk. That is going to be the difficult part of this proce ss. <br /> <br />Wayne Vanderschuere : In addition to bounding the supply, there is a third dimension <br />about time. Are you looking at a 5 year problem, a 10 year problem? Supply, risk, time - <br />fold those together and it starts to shape an answer that you can do somet hing with. <br />There are two components of time we need to consider – within a year, and over a period <br />of several years. <br /> <br />Rick B rown: We’ve drifted into technical issues. We were trying to focus on procedures. <br />It would be good to get a sense on the mechanic s of how this study is going to be done. <br />Should this study be broken into individual projects that are geared toward subject <br />matters suggested by Roundtables? <br /> <br />Dan McAuliffe: The rig ht way to go is looking at basin by basin supply issues. We need <br />to do t his with your support. We would like to get to those questions in a way that <br />provides comfort that we are all in agreement. Also, when we worked on final language <br />in the bill, that language includes the possibility of future studies. <br /> <br />Rita Crumpton: We need an explanation of how this is different than SWSI, or is it <br />expanding on SWSI? <br /> <br />Rick Brown: We have a good starting place on water availability in SWSI. We looked at <br />this in each basin. We made some initial efforts at looking at particular geograph ic <br />places in SWSI, and made some assumptions as far as period of record. This may need to <br />be updated. We also did basic analysis based on this information and calculated what <br />would be legally available at various locations, and looked at compact issues. We <br />examined what would legally be available under the letter of the compact - available <br />during dry periods. Perhaps there are other things we need to look at. We also used 30 <br />year planning horizon, but we may need to expand this. <br /> <br />Dan McAuliffe: (Expla ining what he means by projects in second to last bullet.) A basin <br />Roundtable could be thinking of doing a particular project. Should we take that into <br />account when doing the water availability study, or should we do this later? <br /> <br />Melinda Kassen : If you ’re doing supply first, then you don’t take it into account. <br /> <br />Peter Binney: Where do you put the boundaries on this study? Climate is affecting all <br />Colorado basins. Questions addressed should include what is happening in other basins <br />as well. If you ass ume static demands at the state line or across the continental divide, <br />then you could be in error. We need to look closely at those as a part of your risk <br />analysis. I would suggest that you consider some of the other factors and not create <br />artificial bou ndary conditions around a basin itself. <br /> <br /> 6 <br />