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• Board Meeting Date: 11/18/2007
• Description: IBCC Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Rick Brown: By looking at Non-consumptive and Consumptive concurrently you can craft a
solution.
Ray Wright: The riparian zone could impact the Compact Water.
Jeris Danielson: The IBCC should look at various proposals and plus/minus.
Harris Sher•~nan: Rick, do you have this as a CWCB initiative?
RickBr•own: CWCB does have some resources to work on solutions. Can use IBCC as a
advisory group.
Jeris Danielson: The CWCB should do this.
Dan Birch: This is an appropriate role for IBCC. How do voe talk about inter-basin role and
reallocation of water? I may have reluctance to go very far down the path of any solution unless
we are talking about reallocation.
Rick Brown: If we craft the alternatives right it can look at options as we move water from
agriculture for the Metro, S.Platte and Arkansas. Can put some sideboards on allocations. Can
inform you on the strengths and weaknesses of projects.
Dan Birch: Are we getting a default allocation?
Jervis Danielson: I'm puzzled on how we can make this allocation until we change state law?
Dan Birch: I think we are going to require some substantial changes to law.
Melinda Kassen: Given the conversation the CWCB has had with not wanting to fund Non-
consumptive needs because of implications on water rights, are we going to say we think the law
needs to be changed to do an allocation? We have language that says "thou shall not change
Colorado water law".
Ef•ic Wilkinson: Agree with Jeris that the last task would be beneficial for the state to undertake.
Maybe not to find a solution, but to facilitate the dialogue. Rather than calling them solutions we
can look at components and call them proposals. What is it going to cost to move the water? Is
their water supply available and are there basis of origin concerns or is it reallocation (i.e.: S.
Platte and Arkansas)? Where the unwritten script is, is on basins that have unappropriated
water? Unless we do this, how are we ever going to reach a solution`? Right now so many lines
are drawn in the sand and no one wants to study anything because it might be used to facilitate a
project. People need to calm down.
Stan Caziey: I think staff is trying to dance around this. Maybe we should look at ways of doing
this as (a) transfer, (b) conservation, (c) trans-basin diversion. Need to start with the laundry list.
What are we solving? Is there a way to address this? Yes, this is a good idea.
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