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• Board Meeting Date: 9/18/2007
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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. Colorado Springs' Southern Delivery System (SDS)
. SECWCD's Preferred Storage Options Plan (PSOP)
In addition, several interests, now including Sen. Ken Salazar, have proposed study of a multi-
purpose storage reservoir on Fountain Creek to provide both flood protection and perhaps
conservation of flood flows for recreation and/or agricultural uses. Also, Colorado State Parks
has been asked to consider a stream corridor type park along portions of the Fountain.

At its March meeting the Board authorized a $75,000 Water Supply Reserve Account grant to
the EI Paso County Water Authority to fund a facilitator for the Fountain Creek Vision Task
Force. In addition recent discussions with staff from the Colorado Water Quality Control
Division indicated that Gov. Ritter has made resolution of these Fountain Cr. issues a high
priority for his administration. Given the Governor's concerns, and in pmi because of our new
financial relationship with the Task Force staff will be elevating its involvement in Fountain
Creek issues and studies. We hope to bring all the resources of the Board and its programs,
including flood protection, compacts, instream flows, and water supply development and
financing to bear on crafting scientifically driven solutions to the issues on Fountain Creek. I
have designated Steve Miller from the Board's staff to be my lead on these efforts, and we will
be presenting a more detailed discussion of Fountain Creek issues, studies, and planning
activities during the November Board meeting.

~ COLORADO RIVER BASIN ~

COLORADO WATER NEEDS AND AL TERNA TIVE ANALYSIS STUDY MAKES
SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS: In August CWCB staff met with the Interbasin Compact
Committee (IBCC) to refine the scope of work to further evaluate water availability in the
Colorado River basin and its tributaries. The meeting went very well and overall the IBCC was
pleased with the content of the scope of work. The primary desire of the IBCC was to try to
expedite the schedule and to get answers to how much water Colorado might develop under
different scenarios. This goal was slightly different that the initial direction that was given to
staff; to first only look at current demands and from the legislature which could not reach
agreement to include examining climate change.

To address this direction the scope was reorganized into two phases and the schedule shortened.
The two Phases generally are: "model development and initial existing demand analysis" and
"model implementation of future demand/supply scenarios. The key challenge for future supply
scenarios is to have consensus and peer reviewed method/products for: 1) climate model(s)
development/refinement; 2) downscaling the model(s) to Colorado and its sub-basins; and 3)
translation of downscaled climate model(s) to hydrology. The timing of this will depend on
entities outside of the study team and will affect the timeline for study implementation.

Staff will discuss revision 3 of the scope of work with the IBCC on September 11 and the results
of the meeting will be included in the directors report discussion.

GLEN CANYON ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM: The Adaptive Management
Workgroup (AMWG) met in Flagstaff, Arizona on August 17-18. Brenda Burman, the newly

Flood Protection. Water Project Planning and Finance. Sn-eam and Lake Protection
Water Supply Protection. Conservation Planning