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<br />San Juan/Dolores/San Miguel Basin Roundtable Technical Meeting #1 <br />Meeting Summary <br /> <br />. Promote positive cost/benefit <br />. Maximimize the ability of users to repay costs <br /> <br />Comments <br />. Is this a "how" vs. a "why" (option vs. objective)? <br />. Cost-effective is in the eyes of the beholder <br />. Consider how this can be measured <br />- Issues with benefit/ cost ratio <br />- How to measure environmental benefits <br />- Soft costs and hard costs have to be quantified <br /> <br />8. Protect Cultural Values <br /> <br />Draft Subobjectives Presented <br />. Respect historical character of basin "way of life" and quality of life <br />. Maintain agricultural lands and agricultural and rural ways of life <br />. Protect, encourage, and enhance cultural diversity <br />. Respect urban way of life and quality of life values <br />. Minimize harm to downstream users <br /> <br />Comments <br />. Sustain irrigated agriculture <br />. Consider expressing it as /I align" cultural values <br />- /I Align" referring to a point where diverse yet common community values "intersect"/ <br />"cross over" <br />. Incorporate the values of Native American communities <br />. SWSI process should define shortages for all needs <br />. Concern over possible ranking of individual projects/ options against one another <br />. Need to recognize, address, and be responsive to differences between sub-basins and <br />counties in this process (e.g., La Plata County may show an overall surplus due to the <br />Animas River flows, but there are shortages in adjacent river basins in La Plata County) <br /> <br />9. Provide for a Healthy Colorado Economy <br /> <br />Draft Subobjectives Presented <br />. Enhance local and state economy <br />. Sustain populations <br />. Provide for healthy economy in each individual basin <br /> <br />Comments <br />. Sustainable economy <br />. Seek Diversity <br />- Diverse components of economy <br />- Full range of the economy, not just the high and low income (service) sectors <br /> <br />CDIVI <br /> <br />8 <br /> <br />SJD BRT Mtg #1 Summary-final.doc 11/14/2003 <br />