Minutes Oct 2007 CBRT _2_

• Basin Roundtable: Colorado
• Title: October 07 Minutes
• Date: 10/22/2007
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

iii. Concern with continued expansion of existing transbasin developments.
f. Summit County concerns -Blue River:
i. Dillon Reservoir and Roberts Tunnel System.
ii. Conflicts with Resort area M&I demands
Dillon Reservoir level
Stream flow needs
iii. Concern with expanding Dillon Reservoir.
g. Garfield County -Middle Colorado River
i. Continued M&I development along Glenwood to Grand Junction corridor will require
additional direct diversions from the Colorado River.
1. Rifle is expected to grow from 8,000 to 40,000 people due to energy development.
ii. Concerned with Shoshone Power call and its effects on rafting and kayaking.
iii. Concerned with poorer water quality due to high salt loads from saline springs.
h. Eagle County -Eagle River
i. In basin development and conversion from agricultural to non-agricultural uses reduces
in-stream flow in late season.
ii. Concerned with potential future transbasin diversions.
i. Mesa County -Lower Colorado River
i. Agriculture uses depend on good quality spring and summer flows.
ii. Concerned with being "at the bottom of the ditch."
iii. Concerned with long term implications of Colorado River usage and basin compact call.
j. IPPs in NEPAs potentially impacting the Colorado River Basin
i. Moffatt firming (Denver Water)
ii. Windy Gap firming (Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District and others).
iii. NISP (Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District and others).
k. The Way Ahead
i. Address shortages in the headwaters area. The Vail ditch would restore a few hundred
acre feet to the River Fraser drainage, and this would be a major enhancement.
ii. Impacts of transbasin firming projects.
iii. Compact delivery impacts to existing and fiiture in-basin water rights.
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