March 11 08 South Platte Basin Roundtable Meet

• Basin Roundtable: South Platte
• Title: March 08 Minutes
• Date: 3/11/2008
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

Request: Need up to $400,000 but we are asking for $200,000 in order to
complete construction costs;
Jerke: Little Thompson runs dry every summer, why?
Do to upstream user: Big Elk Meadows; geology.
Harold Evans: In your write up: amlual yield of 36 acft; thus, if you spend
$4 million, cost of over $112,000 per acre feet. Record cost.
This is total project cost.
3) Bert Weaver: Clear Creek County Planning Director; agent
representing Upper Mountain Counties: Clear Creek, Gilpin,
Jefferson and Park Counties (See application emailed from IBCC on
Tuesday, March 4) (See minutes from January and February
meetings)
Weaver distributes IGA among counties--Weaver introduces Hal Simpson
who has worked with Upper Mountain Counties, Simpson works with
CDM.
Requesting: $130,763 from South Platte Roundtable; $43,587 from Metro
Roundtable: Total: 173, 350
Will be presenting in front of Metro Roundtable on Wednesday for 1/4ti' of
funding; has presented in January to both South Platte and Metro,
See page 13 in Grant Application for Scope of Work:
Divided in four sections: looking to come up with assessment for long
term assessment in groundwater in fractured granite; how are counties
projecting growth, what is zoning of unplotted areas; if these are all built
out by 2050, can we anticipate a sustainable water supply. Using a study
of USGS of Turkey Creek; study author opines that this study approach
makes sense; he will be used as an advisory committee; end result will be
a series of maps showing where there will be problems or where there will
not be problems.
Questions:
Harold Evans: Split between Metro and South Platte: this based on Jeff
Co: 1/4ti'to Jeff Co? Hal: yes.
Matching from Counties is $8,000 plus in-kind? Yes.
Bert Weaver: Per Sherman Harris: Colorado's mountain counties will see
highest growth on a percentage basis.
Janet Bell: Re: to respond on in-kind: Jeff Co has spent $650,000 on the
Turkey Creek study, but we have 10 years of data already gathered. Needs
assessment is primary source.
Jerke: Jeff Co rep?
Janet: Jolu7 Wolforth, Planning Director, Jefferson County Planning and
Zoning District; Walt and I were involved in drafting the scope of work
and now there is a sluff of the work; Jolu1 has just returned from vacation;
will be new rep on Roundtable.
Ralf Topper: Scope of work in Park County? Limited to east side of
Kenosha; also what about miiung impact?
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