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dried up to permit bluegrass lawns and ornamental shrubs on the Front Range; that agriculture <br />should be preserved in Colorado; the Front Range conserve more water; and that the water <br />availability, consumptive and non-consumptive needs analyses be completed before additional <br />east slope diversions occur. <br />2. Marls Levorson of URS described the impact that natural gas drilling in Garfield County is <br />having on water supplies. Drilling activities can pernut saline water from deep water aquifers to <br />migrate up through vertical fractures into potable water supplies, and permit saline plumes to <br />migrate to the Colorado River. <br />3. A preliminary report on the energy demand water needs assessment was presented. <br />March 24, 2008 <br />1. The CBRT discussed the CWCB's denial of the Roaring Fork Watershed and Grand County <br />Stream flow Management Plan grant applications on the grounds that they constitute <br />unacceptable challenges to Colorado water law. <br />2. Lane Wyatt reported on the Non-Consumptive Needs Assessment committee progress. The <br />NCNA committee selected the Roaring Fork River and the Colorado River between Kremmling <br />and Dotsero in order to do model NCNAs. <br />3. Rod Sharp discussed educational town meetings, and suggested that each CBRT Roundtable <br />member schedule a town meeting in their area promoting the CBRT process. <br />April 28, 2008 <br />Eric Kulu1 discussed his draft "Vision for a West Slope Water Future." <br />2. The Grand County Stream Flow Management Plan, Phase II, was discussed by consultants <br />Peggy Bailey and Thomas Wesche. <br />May 19, 2008 <br />1. Carlyle Currier discussed efforts to conserve water consumed in agricultural operations. <br />2. Harris Sherman asked the Roundtable to address what the State should look like in 50 years and <br />to comment on the IBCC/Roundtable process. <br />3. Rick Brown discussed SWSI Phase II. <br />4. Water Reserve Account grant requests were discussed. <br />Proposal CBRT $ CWCB $ <br />West Divide Water Conservancy District proposal for <br />feasibility study of 3 Thompson Creek reservoirs. $40,000 <br />Battlement Reservoir #3 reconstruction to provide habitat for 80,000 <br />I:AInterbasin Compact Cominittee~Basin Roundtables\Colorado~Minutes~2008~Minutes Mav 2008 CBRT.doc 9 8~2~ <br />