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<br />Addressing the Gap Technical Roundtable Meeting #1 <br />Meeting Summary <br /> <br />. Weld, Larimer County not much interest in fallowing programs; would rather sell. But a lot <br />of urbanization impacting agricultural areas. <br />. Limited amounts of unappropriated water to develop new projects with. <br />. Changing flow regime on South Platte urbanization, agricultural applications, projects at <br />tributaries. <br />. Quality is an issue, no first use water is left to develop. <br />. Prom an efficiency standpoint, there are six dry up points on river, getting every drop out of <br />rIver we can. <br />. Look at local government's impact on pipelines - Adams County, jurisdictional issues on <br />implementation. <br />. 1041 issues as it relates to water, more counties adopting 1041. <br /> <br />Yampa Basin <br />. Oil shale can change economic outlook in Colorado. <br />. If all oil shale in White was to developed $100-200 billion/yr revenue. <br />. Ag shortages map not colored for Uncompahgre Valley. <br />. Environment - how can the environment compete with food and water? <br />. Environmental economy as important as agricultural economy in headwaters. <br /> <br />Options for Water Supply Projects <br />The options for water supply projects were discussed. <br /> <br />. Taylor River exchange agreement should be looked at as Win/Win. <br />. Can recreational/ environmental come up with some mechanism like agricultural did <br />50 years ago to fund projects? <br />. Chaffee County now wants flows to be guaranteed for recreation. <br />. Dolores Project - 2nd largest water allocation is for environment. <br />- Environmental allocation paid for by federal government as a project non-reimbursable. <br /> <br />Environment <br /> <br />. Many environment and recreation flows have benefited from water projects <br />- Need for education on these benefits <br />. Reality is M&I is expanding and agriculture and recreation will be impacted. <br />- How to minimize these impacts. <br />. In stream flows are senior in West Slope headwaters. <br />. No one project can meet all needs. <br />. No project will meet all concerns. <br />. No free lunch, growth will need to pay its way. <br />. Needs to be addressed are in South Platte and Arkansas. <br />. Gap will always be a range. <br />. Proposed that gap group address these big picture needs. <br />. Water trust maps showed sensitive areas - use this to guide projects <br />- But inadequate data on quantity and seasonality of needs <br />. Discussion on "cutting to the chase" on only addressing M&I <br />- Need broad base for political buy-in. <br /> <br />CDIVI <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br />\\Densvr01\swsi\SWSI 2\TRT Meeting - Specific\Addressing Gap\summary\Addressing Gap TRT #1 Summary.doc <br />