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Bill Jerke: Encouraged that indeed we have multiple projects that meet multiple needs; <br />fear is that we have waters that are tied up throughout the state and that we should be able <br />to put water to consumptive use. <br />Bert Weaver: Do you consider hydroelectric production anon-consumptive water use? <br />Rick Brown: Intent was environmental/rec needs; in SWSI, looked at human uses for <br />water; so in SWSI it is human use category; <br />Bert: Argues that it is an environmental use; <br />Discussion ensues <br />Janet Bell: What are the opportunities for being able to do the quantification that will be <br />necessary to do equal comparisons; what does it take to overcome the need to quantify; <br />how will you reconunend overcoming that? <br />Rick Brown: Warning not to be too competitive; for instance, the Guiuuson ag land <br />really creates their tourist industry; so carehil not to get onto slippery slope of ag <br />comparison; look, instead, at a specific system; for example, if piping was used, the yield <br />would be increased; so site specific discussions must be engaged; price, waste, many <br />parts of conversation; <br />Fred Walker: Expresses appreciation of directness of Rick Brown's presentation; points <br />out that we as a roundtable have not talked about the allocation of our resources and we <br />have instead been skirting around the issues; needs someone like you to be the catalyst of <br />what needs to happen. <br />Rick Brown: Read SWSI section on alternatives; <br />John Stencel: Task orders: who provides these? <br />Rick Brown: Each roundtable has task orders; for example, task orders are to round out <br />data gaps; some of the non-consumptive efforts being fiu7ded by these; the one that each <br />of the basin's is looking at: big summary sheet of all of these task orders basin by basin; <br />could be good presentation; <br />Rick Brown distributes the next quarterly newsletter for the ISBB and advises that this is <br />available on the website <br />IV. Dinner presentation: <br />Ken Knox: Republican River Issues, Compact and Pipeline <br />(As Recorder McVicker was missing during first part of presentation, these <br />parts of the minutes are thanks to Jim Yahn and Kim Killin) <br />Addressing the Republican River Crisis has been a collaborative effort between the <br />Republican River Water Conservation District and the State of Colorado <br />Proposed Pipeline: <br />* Water for pipeline is coming from 66 irrigation wells being shut down on Cure Brothers <br />property <br />* 15,000 acre feet of consumptive use will be pumped through 8 wells (there will also be <br />7 backup wells) <br />7 <br />