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Arkansas Basin Roundtable Technical Meeting #4 <br />Meeting Summary <br />^ Uncertainty - all IPPs are with Colorado Springs or Southeastern so should contact those <br />entities should define uncertainty. <br />^ Will Executive Summary be public when you deliver it to the Board? <br />- Answer: The Executive Summary will be on the SWSI website. <br />^ It is unspoken that the current policy framework is something we want to continue with. <br />^ Local planning is land use, water is different, you have water going toward money. <br />^ Tell public what works well, what does not, what are impacts. The movement of water is <br />complicated. <br />^ Uncertainties should be characterized by source and type. <br />^ Environmental enhancements - proactive actions are much cheaper than reactive. <br />^ NEPA process in scoping invites in all other interests, CWCB could invoke more involvement <br />to get that coalition built. <br />^ Public interests have been contributing despite policy against that. <br />^ Public interest is paying for benefit and cost. <br />^ Rotating agriculture keeps market forces involved. <br />^ Need to deal with water quality and salinity by taking some lands out of production. <br />^ There are thresholds on environmental enhancement, and we have limited knowledge on <br />biodiversity issues: riparian vegetation, geomorphic changes, invasive species. <br />^ There are benefits from agriculture inefficiencies. <br />^ Concern over leaving the Roundtable process and then dealing with transbasin issues <br />separately. <br />^ Legislature should give SWSI more time. <br />^ Would the CWCB consider funding interbasin discussions? The real water is on the other <br />side of the mountains. <br />^ Need to start acting like a state, not individual users and needs. <br />^ Need to work more cooperatively. <br />^ Need to learn to share; work collectively. This effort is a start. <br />^ SWSI Phase 2 needs to continue to have all interests represented, and increase public <br />outreach. <br />~~ <br />Arkansas BRT Mtg #4 Summary.doc 11/29/2004 <br />