Minutes Dec 2007 CBRT

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

December 17, 2007
The CBRT Non-Consumptive Needs Assessment committee held a meeting that discussed the
timetable of the Non-Consumptive Needs Assessment data would be collected (18 months), and
a discussion of the data collection techiuques to quantify minimum flows required to maintain
healthy river ecosystems.
2. The CBRT approved grants totaling $300,000 from the CBRT Basin Account and $127,900 from
the Statewide Account. To date, $415,000 has been allocated from the CBRT Basin Account out
of $1 million total available over 6 years. The grants approved include:
Proposal CBRT $ CWCB $
Grand County Phase 2 Stream Flow Mgmt Plan 100,000
Roaring Fork Watershed Study Phase 2 40,000
Old Dillon Reservoir Eiilargement 100,000
Fraser River Berthoud Pass sand collection facility 60,000 127,900
Total $300,000 $127,900
Jim Broderick, Executive Director of the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District,
Pitlcin County Commissioner Rachel Richards, and Aspen City Engineer Phil Overeynder
discussed the PSOP, or Preferred Storage Option Plan, for increased storage alternatives in the
Fryingpan-Arkansas basin. The Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District recommends
increasing dam heights to store 75,000 additional acre feet in Pueblo Reservoir and 14,000
additional acre feet in Turquoise Lake.
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