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<br />STATE OF COLORADO
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<br />Colorado Water Conservation Board
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<br />Department of Natural Resources
<br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
<br />Denver, Colorado 80203
<br />Phone: (303) 866-3441
<br />FAX: (303) 866-4474
<br />www.cwcb.state.co.us
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<br />COLORADO WATER AVAILABILITY TASK FORCE
<br />& FLOOD TASK FORCE
<br />DRAFT MEETING SUMMARY FOR MARCH 17,2008
<br />
<br />Bill Ritter, Jr.
<br />Governor
<br />
<br />Harris D. Sherman
<br />DNR Executive Director
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<br />This summary is from the combined meeting between Colorado's Flood Task Force Jennifer L. Gimbel
<br />(FTF) and Water Availability Task Force (W ATF) held at the Natural Resources CWCB Director
<br />Conservation Services offices in Lakewood, Colorado. Presenters and attendees Dan McAuliffe
<br />included local, state, and federal officials, private sector experts, and media interests. CWCB Deputy Director
<br />The meeting summary and presentations posted on the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB)
<br />website at www.cwcb.state.co.us.Toinquire about the FTF call Tom Browning, Chair at (303) 866-4804 and
<br />for questions about the W ATF call Veva McCaig, Co-Chair at (303) 866-3339. To report corrections to the
<br />meeting summary please contact Joe Busto at (303) 866-4807.
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<br />Reoort from Governor's Office
<br />. The DNR Executive Director's Office Public Information officer is Deb Fraser. She is building a flood
<br />alert web site with flood program information and asked for cell phone numbers of the members of the
<br />WATF and FTF.
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<br />CWCB Staff Reoort
<br />. Tom Browning is the Chair of the
<br />FTF and is the Chief of the
<br />CWCB's Watershed Protection
<br />and Flood Mitigation Section.
<br />. Kevin Houck operates the CWCB
<br />Flood Response Program. The
<br />CWCB has spent the last month
<br />monitoring and tracking snowpack.
<br />March has been a dry month but
<br />April has been snowy around the
<br />state. The CWCB, Division of
<br />Emergency Management and the
<br />Corps of Engineers have been
<br />going around the state have preparation meetings with elected officials, floodplain managers, and
<br />emergency managers. In some cases local officials are clearing debris out of bridges and culverts and
<br />working on access issues if there are issues at potential flooding spots.
<br />. Chris Sturm created SNODAS maps with SNOTEL totals for the meeting. The CWCB, USBR, and
<br />Riverside Technologies, inc. are tailoring this NOAA National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing
<br />Center data set for Colorado's water sheds. The blue areas in the map are areas of high snowpack.
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<br />Flood Protection. Water Supply Planning and Finance. Stream and Lake Protection
<br />Water Supply Protection. Conservation and Drought Planning
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