Minutes Sep 2007 CBRT

• Basin Roundtable: Colorado
• Title: September Meeting Minutes
• Date: 9/24/2007
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

apparently holding back their own fields in hopes of receiving statewide funding instead. For
example, Redifer believes the Bull Creek Reservoir #4 eiilargement request should have
requested CBRT fiinding rather than statewide funding.
John Redifer also noted that a portion of severance tax revenues are used to fund CWCB grants.
The severance tax committee is looking at how severance taxes are being shared statewide, and
may reconunend reducing the share that CWCB receives. He recommended that CWCB
roundtable members contact their legislators to reconunend no change in severance tax CWCB
fielding.
7. CWCB Annual Business Report.
a. Bylaws were approved with no changes.
b. Inactive members: None were noted.
c. Officers appointed for new terms:
Chairman: Dave Merritt
Vice Chairs: Lurline Curran
James Carter
8. Mike Wageck report on Consumptive Use Work Group. The Consumptive Use Conunittee
met for the first time on August 1. Harris Sherman, Director of Natural Resources in Colorado,
encouraged the group to look out to 2050, and not 2030 as was the case in the SWSI Gap Report,
and to keep a statewide perspective. The group's goal is to develop a common technical
platform to quantify needs.
9. Lane Wyatt report on Nonconsumptive Needs Assessment (NCNA) Committee. The
committee is reviewing the available technical tools. The Colorado River Water conservation
District provided a series of attribute maps of the Colorado River basin to the NCNA committee.
At the November CBRT meeting the NCNA committee will report on prioritized stream reaches
in the Colorado River basin that need to be protected.
10. Discussion of Water Availability Study Scope of Work -Eric Hecox. Eric Hecox led a
roundtable discussion about the Water Availability Study Scope of Work. Representatives of the
Southwest and Gunnison Basin Roundtables also attended. See also the July 2007 minutes for a
discussion of the Water Availability Study. k7 general, member comments addressed (1) the
timetable, and concerns that it was too fast; (2) what assLUnptions would be used to determine
how much water is currently being used. The 15-page Colorado River Water Availability Study
Scope, September 12, 2007 draft was discussed at the meeting. Phase III, in which decisions
would be made about how much water would be deemed available for future development, was
not discussed at this meeting. Members should send additional comments they have to Eric
Hecox at eric.hecox~state.co.us by October 15.
Water available =Physical supply -Water Use
Phase I: Considers only existing uses of Colorado rivers (i.e., only absolute rights considered)
Phase II: Considers future demands as well (i. e., conditional water rights also considered)
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