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Colorado Water for the 21St Century Metro Roundtable -Meeting Minutes July 11, 2007 4:00 - 6:10 PM Arvada Center Doug Scott chaired the meeting. An IBCC update report was presented by Doug Scott, Chips Barry, and Peter Binney Robert Sakata reported that the Colorado Agricultural Alliance to consider options that may be available for farming interests, related to water supply matters. A meeting is planned for December. Eric Hecox provided an update on the individual basin-wide water needs assessment process. Two work groups have been formed - anon-consumptive work group and a consumptive work group. The non-consumptive group has met once. It is the intent that each basin will use a common methodology to determine non-consumptive needs, with the results of the work groups to be approved by the individual roundtables. Work will include development of GIS coverage of Colorado's important environmental and recreational attributes. David Nickum and someone to be appointed from Denver Water's staff will work with the South Platte basin non-consumptive needs work group. The consumptive work group will consist of the SWSI Gap Technical Committee, plus additional members designated by the individual roundtables. The first consumptive group meeting will be August 1. Eric reported that the planning horizon for the consumptive work group may possibly be extended to 2050. All of the water needs assessment work is scheduled for completion by December 2008. Kelly DiNatale provided a briefing on the consumptive needs in the South Platte basin. It is likely that up to 100,000 acre-feet of gravel lake storage may be constructed in the next 20 years, 80% of which to be used to recapture reusable municipal return flows. There is over 4,000,000 acre-feet of conditional storage rights in the South Platte basin, considering only those individual rights that are larger than 1,000 acre-feet in scope. Dave Kaunisto reported on the proposed Zero Liquid Discharge study. After discussion, the Metro Roundtable members unanimously approved $200,000 of SB-179 funds to support this study. Frank Yeager asked for consideration of an additional $50,000 to support Parker Water and Sanitation District's request for funding of a Rural-Urban Water Model Study, but no action was taken concerning this matter. The next meeting is scheduled for August 8 at a location to be determined Prepared by: Gary Thompson August 3, 2007 Page 1 of 1