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2/2/2007
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<br />? <br /> Mike Shimmin: On the South Platte, our Roundtable decided SWSI had done a good job <br />of assessing future needs for our area, and we adopted that assessment. Clearly the South <br />Platte basin is under pressure to make sure we’re fully utilizing our resources before we <br />look elsewhere for additional supplies. We’re doi ng a full analysis of where <br />unappropriated water, if any, exists in South Platte. Also looking at places where <br />multiple developers are looking for same water source. Our needs are about obtaining <br />information to refine how our water gets used. <br /> <br />? <br /> Dan Birch : On the Yampa/White, SWSI provided a fair assessment of water needs for <br />Deleted: <br />Dan Bir ch <br />the basin. The exception is water needs related to energy development (to include oil <br />shale and other potential areas of energy development). The Roundtable approved an <br />initial scope of work to look at those issues, in a combined study with the Colorado River <br />basin. Local interests continue to be concerned about how water needs can be met. At <br />one of our n ext meeting s, the Roundtable will look at scope of work to determi ne non - <br />consumptive needs. Local ranchers have proposed a model project combining small <br />storage and irrigation efficiencies to yield improved in - stream flows. Because agriculture <br />can’t afford to pay for storage, and in some cases on - farm efficiencies, thi s model will <br />look at bringing those entities and interests together. <br /> <br />? <br /> Kent Crowder: On Tuesday , the North Platte Roundtable finalized a task order to get <br />sta rted on our needs assessment. We w ant to quantify the unappropriated waters on the <br />North P latte. It is always talked about as an over appropriated basin, but we think there is <br />unappropriated water at some times of the year. Also, SWSI didn’t fully l ook at non - <br />consumptive uses , and we w ant to start identifying and quantifying those. Through this <br />pro cess, we have started to see some of the info rmation coming out of the P latte decision <br />support system. O ur other need is to quantify and address consumptive use of high <br />altitude pasture grass. Our basin is different than others in Colorado because all of our <br />water runs out to Wyoming, and we’re not arguing too much with one continuous basin. <br /> <br />? <br /> Alan Hamel and Jeris Danielson: On the Arkansas, we’ll be looking for more <br />information on re creation and environmental needs in the basin. For municipal, <br />industr ial, and agriculture, we’re comfortable with SWSI numbers . <br /> <br />? <br /> Doug Scott and Peter Binney: The Metro Roundtable is an artificial construct out of the <br />South P latte basin . Virtually everything is municipal and industrial use . Overall, we’re <br />comfortable wi th the SWSI estimates for the metro area. We need to develop a common <br />number for municipal and industrial demand to be used for population - based projections. <br />We’re concern ed about opposition to undertake future work to address the water supply <br />gap that w as in the CWCB Projects Bill , because to study our water use we need to be <br />able to go beyond our border s and look at the basins where the water originates . The <br />Metro area can’t survive without re lationships with other basin s. We k now what we’d <br />like to se e 50 years from now – the problem is how to get there. <br /> <br />? <br /> Jenny Russell: The task order summary request for the Southwest Roundtable is together <br />and will be discussed and voted on this Wednesday. We want to check with the <br /> <br />7 <br />
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