Colorado - Grand County Stream Flow Mgmt Plan Phase III_Re-submittal Water Activity Summary2008

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Finally, earlier iterations of the application did not fully meet all 4 threshold criteria. Based on a commitment by Grand County to collaboratively formulate the final scope of work and to involve a broad range of stakeholders in executing phase 3 has substantially addressed these concerns. However, the application still does not fully address issues related to Section 37-75-104 (2)(c) Colorado Revised Statues. Specifically the applicant has not fully addressed the bolded section of the following excerpt from the statute: "Using data and information from the Statewide Water Supply Initiative and other appropriate sources and in cooperation with the on-going Statewide Water Supply Initiative, develop abasin-wide consumptive and nonconsumptive water supply needs assessment, conduct an analysis of available unappropriated waters within the basin, and propose projects or methods, both structural and nonstructural, for meeting those needs and utilizing those unappropriated waters where appropriate. Basin Roundtables shall actively seek the input and advice of affected local governments, water providers, and other interested stakeholders and persons in establishing its needs assessment....". While Denver and Northern are certainly significant affected water providers there are many other affected governments, agricultural users and other stakeholder's whose input is not being actively sought (i.e., no process outlined in the scope of work). The applicant should give additional thought as to how this could be accomplished. At a minimum it would seem prudent to include other affected basin roLU7dtables such as the South Platte, Metro, and Arkansas Roundtables. In addition, given the interconnectivity that the Colorado River Compact creates for west slope roundtables it appears that the results of this project could have bearing/affect on other west slope basin roundtables. Issues/Additional Needs: • Grand County will cooperate with Denver, Northenl, and other stakeholders in formulating the final scope of work for Phase 3. Please ensure the final scope of work provides adequate time and resources for on-going coordination with a broad range of stakeholders and provide more information on how the process will involve other stakeholders (see discussion section). This will be important in meeting Threshold Criteria #2 and #4 (see above) and can be best achieved by adding a coordination task to the scope of work. • A final scope, budget, and schedule will either be needed prior to executing a contract or as part of the revised scope/project implementation process. • A schedule of tasks was not provided. • The budget does not provide detail on the other direct costs. Please provide categories and unit costs. • As the prof ect partners cooperate in formulating the exact scope of work for Phase 3, please ensure that it includes additional detail regarding 1) the description of the task; 2) the method or procedure that will be followed to accomplish the task; and 3) the specific products or deliverables produced. Examples include: please clarify the location of the 80 mile study area and the 20 miles considered for the "master plan"; in Task 3.1 what is the process for agreeing on flow recommendations, what flow releases are contemplated by which water providers, how will reaches with limiting factors be identified and how will limiting factors be determined. For Task 3.22 provide more information on the specific method for transport analysis and provide more information regarding the deliverable. For Task 3.3 what channel habitats are assessed and how, how will you assess estimated loss of vegetation due to flow changes and what are the thresholds/methods for correlating changes and how it that estimated? For Task 3.4 provide more information on methods and deliverables, for example one subtask is to collect and analyze bed material gradations but does not specify where and how. In another subtask it states a review of lrydraulic characteristics, bed materials and other characteristics to compare with typical procedures to determine stream parameters (bolded terms are unclear and 4