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Section 2 Statewide Demographic, Economic, and Social Setting Table 2-21 Summarv of Water Manaqement Issues bv Basin from Public Information Meetinqs . . . t~ . Rio Grande Alamosa ^ Some voiced need for additional storage 9/3/03 ^ Others voiced need for sustainable storage . Water's importance to recreation noted ^ Water restrictions on new housing/tourism should be considered ^ Need to rechar e a uifers and monitor Alamosa ^ Sub-surface irrigation should be advanced 8/19/04 ^ Aurora is paying for drip systems in Arkansas Basin and drying up portion of land . Need to understand impacts of all water supply options . Concern over impacts to agriculture ^ Homeowner Associations should not require bluegrass ^ Rio Grande Basin cannot afford the cost to solve over-pumping issues ^ Public education is important ^ Once 20-30 percent of wells in basin go dry, irrigated acres will decline and aquifer will recover ^ Rio Grande growth rate seems low due to growth in South Fork and Crestone area South Platte Greeley ^ Need to focus on conservation and education 9/4/03 ^ Concerns about endangered species issues in Nebraska ^ Concerns on funding for new projects Denver . Concerns on recharging groundwater 9/8/03 ^ Plan better for long-term growth ^ How does future water development impact agriculture and rural economies ^ Concerns on diversiiy of basin and needs . SWSI process: Inform and involve public, present information understandably ^ Set goals for river and stream use, then work collaboratively to manage the resources accordingly ^ Diverse needs in the South Platte Basin; solutions must address all of them . Water quality issues, e.g., Hayman fire, others ^ Consider growth control to conserve water ^ Need to study conjunctive use and reuse ^ Consider setting environmental goals for streams and rivers Denver ^ There is an issue of providers competing for same water 9/8/04 ^ Providers do not fully disclose project details/plans ^ Water transfers and multiple uses raises concerns about water quality and treafinent ^ There is a need for high level water symposium including top thinkers and discussing Colorado's issues ^ Potential for SWSI to serve as basis for taking discussion to next level ^ Lack of characterization of agriculture situation and their motive/interest in water transfers raises questions Yampa/VVhite/ Steamboat Springs ^ Concern that Front Range usage of water would affect flow availability in the Yampa due to Green 8/21/03 compactrequirements . Need for additional water storage projects, particularly smaller projects ^ Concern that tributary levels were low, and that would affect towns along those tributaries Steamboat Springs ^ Concern with water quality of reused water 8/11/04 ^ Before we start diverting more water from Western Slope, we need to do more conservation on Front Range ^ Oil shale development unlikely ^ Environment provides flood control ^ There is no balance for instream flows - water rights are junior and administered by CWCB whose priority is not instream flow ^ There is a recovery program in place as part of Elkhead Enlargement that will help but it is at the expense of peak flows ^ At some time we are going to run out of food and fiber with all of these agriculture transfers ^ We need more money available to build water projects than buy water rights for instream flows ^ Remember mitigation, i.e., cannot make new wetlands ~~ ~J~~a Statew~itle Water Supply Inii'iative 2-16 S:\REPORT\WORD PROCESSING\REPORT\S2 11-10.04.DOC