Feb 12 08 South Platte Basin Roundtable Meetin

• Basin Roundtable: South Platte
• Title: February 08 Minutes
• Date: 2/12/2008
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

Jerke: Surface or ground?
McCloud: Surface.
Bert Weaver: Evaporative loss=40-50%.
McCloud: All ground water is tributary.
Jerke: Re: Federal Reserve Case. Still in courts?
McCloud: Filed in 1971; still in courts.
Hecox: Can you please speak to federal issues and how the basin handles
dealing with those in this arena of uncertainty.
Olean: Projects and plans go forward only if they can work within those
federal constraints.
Michelle: The Federal Reserve issues hang us up hugely with our needs
assessments.
Hugh: Colorado River Compact is the big factor.
Fred Walker: Recreational in chaiulel diversion?
McCloud: conditional water right; still measuring its use and value. White
water river park does not consume the water in any way; upstream commuiuty
is Crested Butte; their water rights are senior; water park is 2002 water right.
Bob Streeter: Transfer of ag water to non ag use?
Olean and Hugh: Don't lc~7ow the quantities; has been some transfer for
augmentation water; Paoiua, for instance. Requirement to get a tap: must
bring water to the table; thus this has caused ag water to be sold. This has
inflated the cost of the water...from ag use to developer uses to domestic
water suppliers.
McCloud: In upper basin: ag water converted to subdivisions; not huge, but
growing trend. Change of use on same land.
Mike Shimmin: Please tallc about needs assessment; your perspective as a
basin.
Michelle: 14 Taslc forces are put together; currently undertaking a study of
non consumptive needs-this is most challenging; have not finished any of
them;
Hugh: domestic needs better understood
McCloud: organized for consumptive needs assessment. Well defined and
comprehensive.
III. Presentation of South Platte Basin Roundtable.
Fred Walker, Bob Streeter, Sasha Charney:
See Roundtable website for power point presentation.
Big challenges: Fred emphasizes that our efficiency of use of our water is over
75%.
Questions or Discussion:
Hugh: Gap: is this surface water or includes wells being shut out?
Hecox: Gap is for M&I; wells that have been shut down are agricultural only;
Joe Frank: Agricultural shortage;
Jerke and Fred Walker: Numbers used for gap were generated before wells
were shut off; so gap would be more than what we see (400,000+ ac ft in 2030).
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