GunnisonComments01

• Basin: Gunnison
• Title: Comments 1
• Date: 8/30/2003
• SWSI - Doc Type: Comments

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Ralph E. Clark ill
519 East Georgia Ave.
Gunnison, Colorado 81230
Tel. [phone]

August 30~ 2003

Rick Brown, Project Manager
State- Wide Water Supply Initiative
Colorado Water Conservation Board
1313 Shennan Street; Room 723
Denver, Colo~do 80203

Dear Mr. Brown;

Thank you for including Gunnison among the locations fOf the first round of meetings for the Statewide Water Supply
Initiative (SWSI)~ Below are some additional comments and information for the SWSI process.

* The SWSI process should explicitly identify its interrelationships and implications with other \Nater related
programs and planning processes underway within Colorado such as those dealing with water quality) source \Vater
protection, instreatn flows~ growth management~ natural heritage identification and protection ofbiologica1 resourcesi
wildlife managemen~ stream corridor restoration, and utilization of hydropower sites and facilities.

* So much information and wisdom has already been assembled in earlier planning processes, research
publications, studies; conferences~ policy analyses~ etc., all of which has relevance to SWSI. Hopefully at least the
citations to this body of information will be placed on a web site~ Major items from this assemblage of information
should be placed in full on the web site to facilitate access by the public.

* The SWSI process should build upon existing knowledge~ Too often water resource and other planning
efforts do not even examine why project proposals and policies resulting from previous planning efforts, did or did
no~ produce the results intended. Many concepts and policies, carefully considered decades ago for water resources,
now.are seemingly again being discussed but as if they were new thoughts.

* Over the past several years many publications have been produced about the management ofColoradotg water
resources. Specific conclusions and recommendations from these reports should be assembled and explicitly
addressed in the SWSL

* Somewhat earlier publications and reports h~rein suggested for particular attention in the SWSI process
include the following:

Ballard S. C., Devine M~ D.~ Chartock M. A~ and others (1982) Water and Western Energy: Impacts..
Issues~ and Choices, no. 1 in Studies in Water Policy and Management, Science and Public Policy Program _ .
University of Oklahoma, Westview Press, Boulder~ Colorado, 321 pages.

Bureau of Reclamation (1974) Water For Tomorrow- Colorado State Water Plan~ prepared in cooperation
with the State of Cot ora do, Denver, Colorado.

Colorado Department of Natural Resources (1978) The Colorado Water Study.. Directions For The Future..
Office of the Executive Director at Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Denver:. Colomdo; a
. summai)' of multiple volumes and study reports~

Committee on Climate Uncertainty and Water Resources Management of the Water Science and Technology
Board (1991) Mana'1ing Water Resources In The West Under Conditions aCClimate Uncertainty.. National
Academy Press, Washington D. C'T 344 pages~