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• Board Meeting Date: 3/18/2008
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Outside Balboa Park, the federal hydrologists are trying to complete what would be the most
comprehensi`~e study of San Diego County's groundwater resources. They are mapping aquifers such as
the San Diego Formation, a large subsurface field of sand and gra`~el from which water can be extracted.
The federal study in`~olves eight monitoring wells, and hydrologists hope to drill 10 others in the next few
years .
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RECENTLY DECREED INSTREAM FLOW WATERRIGHTS - On December 14, 2007, the
Division 3 Water Court decreed an instream flow water right to the CWCB on Eaglebrook Creek in Case
No. 03CW036. The instream flow water right has an appropriation date of January 22, 2003 and is
decreed for 0.75 cfs (May 15 October 31); 0.5 cfs (November 1 November 30); and 0.35 cfs
(December 1-May 14). The upstream tet~ninus of the ISF reach is the boundary of the Rio Grande
National Forest and the lower terminus is the McFarland Ditch A&B. The entire one-mile ISF reach is
located on BLM land.
LAKEWOOD POST OFFICE TO BE RENAMED -Following Fred Anderson's tribute to
Felix Sparks at the Water Congress on Friday, H.R. 4240, a bill to name the Lakewood post office on
West Alameda the Felix Sparks United States Post Office, is on the House floor in Congress. Prime
sponsor is Ed Perlmutter with our entire House delegation as co-sponsors.
PBS AIRS COLORADO "STATE OF MIND" PROGRAM ON WATER ISSUES -Don
Ament, former Commissioner of Agriculture for Colorado, Susan Daggett, of the Den`~er Water Board,
Jim Spehar, former City Councilor for Grand Junction, and Ted Kowalski of the CWCB Staff appeared
on the February 8~` show. The show pro`~ided a great ovetti~iew of some of the pressing water issues
Colorado is currently facing. Any Board Member who would like a copy of the program on DVD, please
contact Ted Kowalski or Christian Lyons.
ROCKY MTN. LAND USE INSTITUTE 17TH ANNUAL CONVENTION: Held on March 6-
7, 2008, the con`~ention discussed land use and the environment. One of the panels focused on the
Colorado River seven basin states agreement and included James Da`~enport, representing Ne`~ada, Karen
Kwon of the Attorney General's Office, and Ted Kowalski of CWCB.
BLM DRAFT OIL SHALE AND TAR SANDS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN
AMENDMENTS -The Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Colorado Department of Public
Health and En`~ironment, and Colorado Department of Local Affairs (Departments) will submit joint
comments on the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Draft Oil Shale and
Tar Sav~ds Resource Mav~agement Plan Amendments to Address Land Use Allocations in Colorado, Utalz,
avid Wyomang avid Programmatac Ev~virovamental Impact Statement (Draft PEIS) in mid-March. While
the State supports an oil shale program in which sufficient information to make informed commercial
regulatory and leasing decisions is available, the current development proposals will likely utilize
untested technology with potential long-term impacts to Colorado's communities and the en`~ironment.
The State is opposed to plans for federal oil shale de`~elopment prior to a meaningful evaluation of the
impacts. Because the Draft PEIS does not contain sufficient information on which to make good
management decisions the Departments opposed BLM's Preferred Alternati`~e that would make 1,991,222
acres a`~ailable for application for oil shale leases in the three-state region, including 359,798 acres in
Colorado. The Departments rather recommended that the BLM adopt the No Action Alternative as the
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