Jan 8 08 South Platte Basin Roundtable Meeting

• Basin Roundtable: South Platte
• Title: January 08 South Platte Minutes
• Date: 1/8/2008
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

--Bert Weaver: same sentiments of county contributions; comment
on pre-72 lots: lesson in legislative response to water problems: SB
35 meant to regulate subdivisions; 35 years later, each mining
claim is also a "pre-1972" lot. 12,000-14,000 mining claims in
Clear Creels County; thus, these separate parcel needs to betaken
into account.
--Mike Shimmin: Dilemma: are we to put everything on hold until
we hear from this: only 250,000 left for this fiscal year.
--Jerke: Will have discussion after dimier. Need to focus on total
amount of money available.
--McVicker: Need Process to gather other comments in order to
send to Nicole.
Dinner:
IV. Water Supply Account (WSRA)
Presentations from Applicants Seeking Roundtable Approval
1) Georgetown and Blackhawk Water Storage in Georgetown
Lake
Chuck Stern: Town Administrator: Georgetown; Dale Lower: Water
System: Blackhawk; partners in Georgetown Lake
History: 1999: Georgetown applied for junior storage rights in
Georgetown Lake; holds 385 acft of water; with 62 acre surface area;
in 2000, Town entered water storage agreement with Viddler Water
County to store up to 100 acft of water in the lake; Georgetown has
purchased Viddler; in 2002, Golden released their water from the
lake; the valve was damaged in operation; hydro plant that is
privately owned; complicates operation of the lake; from 2000-2005,
dam gate valve was closed and not used; in 2005, the state Div 1
Engineer ordered Georgetown to begin accounting for evaporation;
2006, Georgetown began manual operation of the dam gate valve for
domestic consLUnption when 1866 water right out of priority; July
2006, Westminster as an opposer raised concerns that gate valve
was not sufficient to pass enough water to prevent out of priority
storage; this led State Div 1 Engineer to hold summit meeting in Dec
2006; because of concerns with manual operations of gate valve,
concerns re: out of priority storage occurring, thus Div 1 engineer
ordered Georgetown to close gate and to not release out of the lake
for evaporation; summer 2007, Blackhawk purchased Golden's right
for 100 acft of storage; Blacldiawk and Georgetown partnered and
hired consultant to determine how to prevent out of priority storage.
The TCB study came up with 3 alternatives with prices ranging from
$600,000 - $1 million. In conclusion, this application would be new
decreed stored water: 80-110 acft
This application for $150,000 brings wet water that preserves high
altitude water storage with lower evaporation rates.
--This is basin money application.
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