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<br />Addressing the Gap Technical Roundtable Meeting #2 <br />Meeting Summary <br /> <br />careful not to impact substantiability of ditch systems. Look at better management. Look at <br />recharge systems to manage times when there is excess flow. <br />. Look at agriculture as storage, alluvial recharge. Follow the hydrograph, varies year to year. <br />M&I should keep water in agriculture so it can be moved around when needed. <br />. Market forces for M&I now oil shale demands in WD 70. Sleeper is the demand to support <br />population, not direct oil shale processing. <br />. Land use folks should be part of decisionmaking. <br />. Suburban development is on 3-acre lots. Water use is inefficient. One-half acre lawn and <br />2-1/2-acres of weeds. No idea of management; planners are reactors. Doesn't get what state <br />thinks can be done if each county sets minimum lot sizes. People should be able to live where <br />they want but planners minimum lot sizes are inconsistent. <br />. Share info with them; environmental and recreational needs. <br /> <br />Update on TRT Progress to Date <br /> <br />Rick Brown provided an update on the other TRTs progress to date. No comments were <br />received on this portion of the meeting. <br /> <br />Water Availability for New Supply Development <br /> <br />Kelly DiNatale presented a water supply availability analysis focusing on availability with the <br />eight major river basins. Following are comments received on this analysis: <br /> <br />. Current level of demands in every basin is at unsustainable use of water especially during <br />drought. <br />. M&I demands can not necessarily always cut back 20 to 30 percent and still get some crop <br />like agriculture does. <br />. South Metro seems to also be at unsustainable levels. Why did that not get an unsustainable <br />design? <br />- The Denver Basin is statutorily defined in a different way. <br />. Hydrologically to the Denver Basin is still being depleted and is unsustainable regardless of <br />the regulatory definition. <br /> <br />New Supply Development MAJOR Structural Options for Select Gap <br />Areas <br />Kelly DiNatale presented details on major structural options for select gap areas. These options <br />included: <br />. Lower South Platte/ Arkansas Pumpback <br />. Blue Mesa Pumpback to South Platte and Arkansas and Firming of Colorado Basin Supplies <br />. Colorado River Return Reconnaissance Study <br />. Green Mountain Pumpback <br /> <br />South Platte/Arkansas Pumpback <br /> <br />. Are you assuming RO treatment? <br />- Yes. <br />. 163,000 acre-feet with or without storage? <br /> <br />CDIVI <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />S:\SWSI 2\TRT Meeting - Specific\Addressing Gap\summary\Addressing Gap TRT #2 Summary.doc <br />