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do whatever we can to foster communication and help. We’ll put every IBCC member <br />on the mailing list to receive complete board packet s for every board meeting, and urge <br />ev eryone to become part of the process of developing the projects bill. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Colorado River Basin Compact Activities and Issues <br /> <br />Presentations <br /> <br />Rod Kuharich , CWCB Director, provided an introduction to the Colorado River Compact, and an <br />overview of the diverse Compact issues in which the CWCB is involved. Kuharich serves as the <br />lead negotiator for the State of Colorado on Colorado River Compact and Upper Colorado River <br />Compact issues, handling interstate discussions to protect the rights of the State. He addre ssed <br />several topics currently being discussed by the basin states, including shortage of water <br />deliveries to Mexico. In addition, compact states are considering weather modification to <br />augment upper basin snow pack, and exploring improvements to irrigatio n system storage and <br />controls as a way to improve efficiency. Augmentation with non - tributary groundwater or <br />desalinated brackish groundwater has also been raised as a potential supply source. The work of <br />the Salinity Control Forum continues, focused pri marily on the water quality requirements for <br />delivery to Mexico. Both the Colorado and San Juan rivers have ongoing recovery programs for <br />endangered fish. <br /> <br />Kuharich highlighted that Colorado has developed a decision support system for the Colorado <br />Deleted: <br />developed a <br />River Basin which is an important tool that can help improve management of Colorado’s water <br />Deleted: <br />the C olorado <br />resources. Also ongoing is the creation of a document archive which makes important <br />Deleted: <br />is an <br />information resources widely accessible over the Web. He stressed the desire of the CWCB to <br />Deleted: <br />help improv e <br />serve as an information resource and partner for the IBCC as it moves forward. <br /> <br />Randy Seaholm, Section Chief of Water Supply Protection at the CWCB, gave a presentation on <br />the nuts and bolts of the C olorado River Compact (1928), the Upper Colorado River Compact <br />(194 8 ), and the Coordinated Long - Range Operating Criteria (1970). (Presentation available <br />separately.) He referenced three areas of ongoing discussion under the Colorado River Compact: <br />delive ries to Mexico; how to consider tributaries within the compact framework; and system - <br />wide accounting. Seaholm discussed the Upper Colorado River Commission’s role in <br />apportioning curtailment, if necessary, between upper basin states, and the means by whic h <br />avoiding curtailment factors should be factored into basin storage criteria. <br /> <br />Eric Kuhn, General Manager of the Colorado River Water Conservation District, continued the <br />discussion by presenting three questions for the group. His questions and obser vations are <br />recorded below. <br /> <br />Question 1. <br /> An assumption often made in hydrology is that the future will look like the <br />past. This assumption involves examining historical data on climatology, hydrology and <br />river flows, and assuming that the same pattern – highs, lows, average rainfall, mix of <br /> <br />9 <br />