Minutes Dec 2007 CBRT

• Basin Roundtable: Colorado
• Title: Colorado basin December 07 Minutes
• Date: 12/17/2007
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

IBCC Colorado River Basin
Minutes of Meeting on December 17, 2007
Minimum flow data collection techniques, Approve grant requests, PSOP discussion
1. Next Meeting: Monday, January 25, Glenwood Springs Community Recreation Center,
1:00 to 4:00.
a. Jim Lochhead, Esq., former head of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, will
discuss the Colorado River Settlement that was signed December 13, 2007.
2. Approve November 2007 meeting minutes. The November 26, 2007 minutes were approved
unanimously with no corrections.
Reporter: These minutes were prepared by Ken Ransford, Esq., CPA, 970-927-1200,
kenransford~comcast.net.
4. Upcoming meetings:
a. January 8: Discussion of Piceance Basin coalbed methane gas water depletion study -
Garfield County Fairgrounds.
b. January 24-25: Water Congress meeting.
5. Report from other Roundtables -None.
6. Non Consumptive Needs Analysis Committee- The NCNA committee met prior to the CBRT
meeting and discussed the NCNA progress. Members from the Yampa-White, Guniuson,
Southwest, and South Platte Roundtables attended. Rick Brown of the CWCB mentioned that
the NCNA report is expected to be completed within 18 months. It should include a GIS
analysis, maps that show the prioritized river stretches, and a quantification of flows. Several
presenters from CSU Fort Collins, the CWCB, and the Nature Conservancy discussed flow
quantification tecluliques. Meeting handouts provide additional information regarding flow
measuring technques, available from Lane Wyatt, gglane~colorado.net. Highlights of the
presentations include:
a. Prioritize stretches needing additional information. The basin roundtables were encouraged
to identify river stretches where additional information regarding flows is needed. It takes
about 6-12 months to collect flow data at specific sites, so now is the time to deternune sites
that need additional data.
b. CBRT members should identify river stretches that need site specific work.
c. Watershed Flow Evaluation Tool. Brian Bledsoe and LeRoy Poff of CSU discussed the
Watershed Flow Evaluation Tool which is appropriate for developing awatershed-scale map.
No site-specific data is collected to develop the WFET. But, the WFET can identify sites
that need additional data.
d. The CBRT should discuss whether a WFET is needed for the Colorado River Basin.
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