April 8 08 South Platte Basin Roundtable Meeti

Home Browse Search

TRT Mission Statement: Water Conservation and Efficiency Tecluucal Roundtable: At extremes: mums saying good job on conservation; conservation says we could do more for demand reduction; Formed two subconunittees: 1) If we used conserved water for the following purposes, how does it affect system reliability vs conservation: --to improve reliability for existing customers; for new growth; other uses: enhancement stream-flows -- Technical savings vs. behavioral savings: behavioral changes during drought; teclulical savings are long-term; --System reliability: some portion of conserved water availability for growth; each water system is unique; conserved water can be available for drought reserve; 2) What are the projected long term savings from conservation alternatives? --Measure, potential water savings; type of program: turf replacement accounts for'/~ of water savings; --issues: storage and transferability; --lots of potential in conservation; Some of deliverables in the document: Conservation and Efficiency: Path Forward: Conservation and water resource development should be pursued concurrently-both take time to implement (fundamental disagreement on this statement) --goals for reducing per capita water use should be established-must be site specific --Conservation planning elements should be thorouglily consideredCWBC Grants available --CO needs to do more to prepare for droughtupdate of state drought plan --Conservation as a source of future water supply remains a challenge --Brown opines that we need to look at pre-compact water on CO River; need plan of action; --Denver Water provides water to 25% of our population; they say we won't share... what to do? Alternative Agricultural Transfers to Permanent Dry-Up TRT: Examine and illustrate how M&I and other water uses can be met with ag rights on a reliable basis Descriptions of Alternative Techniques --interruptible supply agreements --Rotational fallowing agreement 4