May 13 08 South Platte Basin Roundtable Meetin ‎(2)‎

• Basin Roundtable: South Platte
• Title: South Platte May 08 Minutes
• Date: 5/13/2008
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

negotiations with state to arrive at contract; work will then start on study
as early as June to move the study forward.
Legislative Report:
Diaiule Hoppe: Legislature has ended for 2008; killed another attempt to
help South Platte; Water Resource Review committee will meet a few
times this summer; will join with the Water Education Foundation to tour
the South Platte on June 19 & 20; see cfwe.org (CO Foundation for Water
Education)
Joe Frai~lc: Several places still available for Round Table members;
Bill Jerke: RE: Northern Bill and 10,000 acft to help with the irrigation
wells; what was the legal basis for killing this bill?
Eric Willcinson: No legal basis; correction: amendment to Section 308 of
37-903 to add another provision to substitute water supply plans; proposal
was to allow substitute water supply plan that could be used as an existing
aug plan; same requirements; notification, etc., review by the water court
upon appeal; confined to address only pumping ofpost-pumping
depletions Jan 1, 2003 (this was year that permanent plans of
augmentation came into being); the idea was to allow the substitute water
supply plan that could be brought in for post pumping depletions; rhetoric
that billed was West Slope said it would increase trans-basin water;
assertions that we would increase diversions of Big Thompson water;
opposition therefore from West Slope; Centennial and Sterling came out
also against it. (SB 247)
Joe Frai~lc: One of the arguments was the timing.
John Metli: Question re: frinding for $60million for Republican River
Eric W.: Yes, funding went through for CWCB projects.
Sasha Charney: Could you expound on funding?
Eric W.: Breakdown of projects and fiinding on website: cwcb.gov
Part that did not make it was $lnullion for acquisition of in-stream flows.
John Metli: South Platte Decision Support System?
Eric W: South Platte's computerization on what is happening in basin to
model operation of basin; to date: state has done CO River, Rio Grande
River, and now South Platte Decision Support System, about 2 years from
completion; can be used as a plaiuung model.
Jim Hall: lots of information
Harold Evans: One comment: This was one of recommendations from
Governor's task force to fully fund that and bring this to completion;
Eric W.: The South Platte is most complex basin in the state because of
the groundwater interaction; State has spent upward of $10,000 million to
date;
Sasha Charney: One piece that we have used is the complete mapping of
the ditch companies; did good job working with the ditch companies to
make sure that our work is correct.
John Metli: Chatfield, $2million?
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