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3. Sub-Committee Reports: • Guidelines for Water Transfers: Lawrence Sena Harris Sherman wasn't able to make it. They took the input they had from committee members and tweaked the matrix. The also prepared for their meeting with John Stulp, Commissioner of Agriculture. John Singleterry was also at today's meeting. Committee still has a lot of work to do on the matrix. Set up a timeline. April -Steve Witte. May: Harris Sherman & Jennifer Gimbel. June: will be asking for time at the RT meeting to do an oral presentation, and will give out a copy of the matrix to members. In June, they will be available to answer questions from the RT. In July, will have a dialogue with the RT. Will then finalize the matrix and ask for RT approval of the guidelines in August. • Needs Assessment Subcommittee Report: Jay Winner No new grant applications have been received. Bill Warmack is here. We are trying to complete the Needs Assessment update this summer. Will see some WSRA grant applications come in May and June. • Groundwater Committee: Gary Barber Ralf Topper is here today. He will present "The Arkansas Bibliography" in April. • Non-Consumptive Water Needs Subcommittee -SeEtta Moss Will have non-consumptive maps up on a website soon. The committee will be presenting this methodology to be adopted by the Roundtable in April. 4. IBCC Report: • IBCC assignment: Envision Colorado 50 years from now 1. If no changes are made. 2. Is this picture of Colorado what you really want to see in 50 years? 3. If not, give ideas on how to improve on that vision. 4. Then bring the vision back to the roundtables. Wayne: We're all connected and interdependent. Once you start down this path, you're talking about a lot more than water. This is a timely subject relating to the Water Transfers Committee. Jane: in order to get this group caught up, could someone send out Harris's charge to the IBCC and the comments that were made at that meeting. • IBCC approved waiving normal procedures for the emergency Zebra Mussel grant app. 5. Water Supply Reserve Account Grant Application: Zebra Mussels in Lake Pueblo-State Parks: introduced by SeEtta Moss as Environmental Rep. Rob Billerbeck, manager of biological problems for Colorado State Parks presenter: Zebra Mussels were verified at Lake Pueblo on January 14, 2008. This is their first appearance in Colorado. Zebra Mussels first appeared in 1988 in the Great Lakes, coming from the Black and Caspian Seas. They spread at an incredible rate. They were found in 2002 in Lake Powell. Colorado State Parks started surveying for Zebra and Quagga Mussels in 2002. In Southern California mussels are spreading much faster than in the NE of the country, since they slow down in the North in the winter. The same may be true here in Colorado. Major problems: • Rate of spread is very quick. They attach to boat hulls, and are transported that way. The larvae can live in bilge water in boats and are transported to new water bodies that way. • Change taste and smell of water negatively. • Clog intake pipes up to 3' in diameter and irrigation systems.