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January January Date January 4, 2007 8,2007 5,2007 Jeff Baessler Jeff Comstock Moffat County Dave Watson Land Board To - . Jeff Comstock From _ Jeff Baessler 4 Subject/Type of Contact " ..:.-:... _ _ :- E-maiL... Jeff, Per your request, I have decided not to move the Willow Creek recommendation forward in January as planned. Typically we ask the Board to form its intent to appropriate ISF rights at its January meeting, however, I want the opportunity to continue working with you and others in Moffat County to address as many of your concerns as possible. I believe that we can delay the appropriation, but not necessarily an additional year. I would suggest that we try and address both Moffat County recommendations (Beaver Creek and Willow Creek) at the same CWCB Board meeting. With that said, I would like to continue the forward momentum and would ask that you work diligently to contact the affected individuals that the water commissioner identified (listed at the beginning of this e-mail thread) and any other stakeholders that you can think of. Again, we rely heavily on local officials such as you to get the word out. As I have said before, if there is anything that Todd and I can do to help you; please do not hesitate to call. In addition, please provide me with some dates when we could meet with you and other stakeholders. E-mail....Jeff, Moffat CQunty appreciates your decision. We will work with you to address the community concerns. The water commissioner just finished a list of affected properties and water rights regarding Wilderness Ranch that we would like to further discuss. Although I won't be at the Land Use Board meeting Monday night, I have lined up a board member to discuss the need from the Land Use Board to assign a committee to work though the flow season with CWCB regarding this process. We understand the need for you not to delay this a full year, but we do request the flow season to study the tributaries and main stem of the proposed Willow Creek ISF. We will discuss some meeting dates fairly shortly. Thanks'again for considering our issues and we look forward to working with you over the next several months. . Minutes from Land Board Meeting. .... "Jeff Baesler, Colorado Water Conservation Board, sent an email to Jeff Comstock concerning their in-stream flow appropriations on the Moffat County Areas. Little Cottonwood Creek will be deferred for now; again. The Willow Creek appropriation is being put on hold, for now, as well. This creek runs through Wilderness Ranch and there is some use for water along the creek now that would be impacted. Concerning Beaver Creek, we are not sure where the Board stands right now on following through from last year. We would like the CWCB to stand by their commitment to bring to the attention of the Moffat County Commissioners those streams that are being considered for in-stream water right appropriation so that public input can be received and perhaps some water flow measurements can be obtained if it is needed. Currently little notice is being given for the CWCB appropriation hearings and no time is given to monitor the streams in question during the year preceding their hearing date. We are not sure where the Board stands now! There is nothing on their !!&.enda for Fe~ and March for Moffat County current!y-" Information! Discourse Coordination, Information & Discourse. --PurPose- or ContaCt Coordination, Information & Discourse. . . AGENDA ITEM 19.......... Willow Creek Public Notice, Coordination and Contacts -, .