Harris 2nd Qrt 07 Newsletter_7-26 ‎(2)‎

• Title: Interbasin Compact Process Quarterly Newsletter - 2nd Quarter 2007
• Date: 8/1/2007
• IBCC - Doc Type: Fact Sheets & Quarterly Newsletters

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To address common technical platform and to Range. In addition, several Environmental Impact
maintain consistency between roundtables Statements for Front Range water providers
when completing their needs assessments, two examine demands to 2050. An updated statewide
statewide work groups will be formed a non- analysis is needed to ensure wise water resource
consumptive work group and a consumptive planning. This group would work to ensure that a
work group. In addition, the CWCB will be doing consistent statewide methodology is used for this
a Supply Availability Study. These three update to demands.
technical elements will serve to support the
Basin Roundtables with their Basin Needs
In SWSI the Identified Pr ojects and Processes (IPPs)
Assessments as depicted in this figure.
were identified. IPPs are projects or processes
identified by water providers to meet new water
demands. The IPPs accounted for 511,800 acre-feet
(AF) of new supply to address the demands of
630,000 AF out to 2030. The Basin Roundtables
have requested that this information be reviewed.
Up-to-date information on IPPs will be gathered so
that there is better understanding of where
providers are in the process of completing their
IPPs. In addition, CWCB is developing an IPPs
database that will be used to track projects and
processes into the future.
The M&I Water Conservation TRT set out to
"develop a deeper understanding and greater
consensus on conservation and efficiency for
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municipal, industrial, and agricultural water uses."
In the category of urban water demand, the TRT
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made significant advances that forward
understanding of the important role of water
The issues of common technical platform are
conservation and efficien cy in municipal water
important in developi ng the Basin Needs
planning. Successes include:
Assessments for both consumptive and non-
consumptive uses. These issues are described in
Consensus was reached on how conservation may
further detail below.
affect system reliability under various scenarios
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Quantified potential long -term savings available
from conservation measures
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Developed a range of potential water
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conservation savings from select measures that
The goal of this group is to assist the Basin
were in a comparable range to potential water
Roundtables in their consumptive use needs
conservation savings identified in the SWSI report
assessments through the development of a common
Common understanding was reached on some
technical platform and water supply alternatives
issues
on a statewide basis.
The conclusions and recommendations made by the
CWCB and the TRT will serve as a starting point for
the Consumptive Work Group to further quantify
SWSI projected water demands to 2030. It was
the role water conservation can play in meeting
understood at the time of SWSI that demands will
the demands of Colorado's water supply future.
continue to grow beyond 2030. Since that time it
has been the desire of several BRTs to take
demands of their basins ou t to 2050. This has been
the case particularly on the West Slope where the
basins are not nearly as built out as on the Front
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