YWG_BRT_Mtg_2_Summary

• Basin: Yampa/White/Green
• Title: Meeting Summary 2
• Date: 2/4/2004
• SWSI - Doc Type: Summaries

Yampa/White/Green Basin Roundtable Technical Meeting #2
Meeting Summary

Technical Advisors
David H. Smith
John Fetcher
David Graf
Bob Plaska
Chas Cartwright
Melissa Trammell (for
Chas Cartwright)
1 Substitute attended

Colorado Water Conservation Board

Division of Wildlife
Division Engineer
Dinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur National Monument

Colorado Water Conservation Board
Basin Advisor
State Agencies
State Agencies
Federal Agencies
Federal Agencies

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Sue Morea reviewed the agenda for the meeting. The agenda included:

. A review of the SWSI process and status
. Revised water management objectives and subobjectives and the objective "weighting"
process
. Preliminary results of population estimates and water demands for the
Yampa/White/Green basin
. Preliminary list of water management "options" and "tiering"
. Overview of draft water supply methodology
. Anticipated activities and input requested from BRT members between now and BRT3
. Public comment

Copies of the presentation materials were distributed to BRT members. Comments and
questions received throughout the meeting were recorded on flip charts and are included in the
meeting notes below. The summary is not intended to be a verbatim account and answers to the
questions are not always summarized here. The purpose of the summary is to provide an
overview of the process and the general tenure of the meeting.

SWSI Process

Rick Brown reviewed the overall SWSI project schedule, progress to date, and described the
goals of this second BRT meeting. Rick noted that a few BRT members (in this basin and other
basins) had requested that they be able to see other BRT members' comments on materials such
as the objectives, demand methodology, etc. Rick acknowledged the value of this in a
transparent process and stated that he is investigating ways of making BRT members'
comments available electronically, possibly via the CWCB website. Larger reports referenced in
comments might not be reproduced or scanned.

Water Management Objectives

Rick Brown presented the revised list of water management objectives and subobjectives, based
on comments and feedback obtained from the first round of BRT meetings around the state and
from the CWCB Board meeting in November 2003. Sue explained how the original list of
objectives was modified based on this input. The SWSI team found through this process that
there was significant consistency from basin to basin in the types of objectives identified,

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YWG BRT Mtg #2 Summary.doc 4/16/2004