SW 6-13-07 minutes

• Basin Roundtable: Southwest
• Title: June 07 Minutes
• Date: 6/13/2007
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

annual projects bill $ '/z million to look at water supply availability on the Colorado River
system. They were to iliteract with IBCC and the roundtable process in that study. They
approached IBCC with a series of questions and got feedback. They are now putting
together a draft scope of work for how they might approach the study based on the
feedback given them by IBCC. That discussion will continue at the Montrose IBCC
meeting. He thought they will have an update at the August meeting. Steve added that
the water supply on the west slope and how much is available is a big issue and continues
to grow. Steve mentioned the Eric Kuhn report had been sent to most members.
Nonconsumptive Work Group:
Steve thanked Eric for attending this meeting to provide some background and discussion
on the Nonconsumptive Work Group. Steve said that a letter of Feb. 10 stated our
position on overall needs assessment, and it requested some assistance in developing our
needs assessment. Steve asked the members to tlunk about how we want to integrate
ourselves into the workgroup process.
Eric said he was going to tallc about the approach and how we got to where we are in the
nonconsumptive needs workgroup. He said he wanted feedback from this roundtable on
whether this process will fit our needs. He referred the members to a report handout.
He renunded the members that each roundtable is legislatively charged with doing basin-
wideneeds assessment to include four parts: 1) Analysis of consumptive needs, 2)
analysis of nonconsumptive needs, 3) analysis of available water supply, and 4) propose
projects and methods to meet the identified needs.
Each roundtable was given the information that was developed during the first phase of
the statewide water supply initiative. The legislation said to review this information and
if there were other appropriate studies or other sources of information, we could add that
to what was done during SWSI to do needs assessment. IBCC was given resources to
help provide techucal support to the roundtables. It was through that teclulical support
that they then asked each roundtable what we would like their teclulical people to focus
on. Our letter was a response to that question and Eric added that it was quite similar to
the letters from the other roundtables. There were fairly common themes among the
roundtables such as nonconsumptive analysis and a series of refinements to the
consumptive analysis that was done in SWSI and although the tasks were a little
different, the underlying principal was the same-SWSI did a good job at a higher level,
but the roundtables felt the need to be more specific. And the supply availability was one
that was requested or that people wanted more information on.
IBCC wanted to make sure they responded to the requests from the roundtables, but most
of all, wanted to ensure that we have consistent and comparable information on both the
consumptive and nonconsumptive side. They started working on 3 parallel state-wide
processes that are geared toward helping the roundtables do the work they want to do.
IBCC provides the processes that the roundtables need to go through, but that the
roundtables control the process and giving the input and controlling the substance. The
processes include the consumptive work group, a nonconsumptive work group and a
supply availability study. With those three pieces of information, they feel they can give
us the tools we need to complete our needs assessments. They got input from leadership
to make sure this was a good direction.