Approved Minutes April 2008 CBRT

• Basin Roundtable: Colorado
• Title: Colorado Minutes 4/08
• Date: 4/28/2008
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

December 17, 2007
The CBRT Non-Consumptive Needs Assessment committee held a meeting that discussed the
timetable of the Non-Consumptive Needs Assessment data would be collected (18 months), and
a discussion of the data collection techiuques to quantify minimum flows required to maintain
healthy river ecosystems.
2. The CBRT approved grants totaling $300,000 from the CBRT Basin Account and $127,900 from
the Statewide Account. To date, $415,000 has been allocated from the CBRT Basin Account out
of $1 million total available over 6 years. The grants approved include:
Proposal CBRT $ CWCB $
Grand County Phase 2 Stream Flow Mgmt Plan 100,000
Roaring Fork Watershed Study Phase 2 40,000
Old Dillon Reservoir Enlargement 100,000
Fraser River Berthoud Pass sand collection facility 60,000 127,900
Total $300,000 $127,900
Jim Broderick, Executive Director of the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District,
Pitlcin County Commissioner Rachel Richards, and Aspen City Engineer Phil Overeynder
discussed the PSOP, or Preferred Storage Option Plan, for increased storage alternatives in the
Fryingpan-Arkansas basin. The Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District recommends
increasing dam heights to store 75,000 additional acre feet in Pueblo Reservoir and 14,000
additional acre feet in Turquoise Lake.
January 28, 2008
1. Scott Balcomb, Glenwood Springs attorney, discussed the Upper Colorado River Commission
the Shortage Criteria recently adopted by the 7 states that are participants in the Colorado River
Compact, and Colorado's need to develop a response to a forthconung Compact Call.
2. The settlement between Denver and the Eagle Water and Sanitation District was discussed in
which Eagle settled its lawsuit against Denver for failure to exercise due diligence in perfecting
its conditional water rights. Denver relinquished conditional water rights it held in the Eagle
River upstream of Minturn and in the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area, but retained the right to
develop the Wolcott Reservoir and fill it with withdrawals from the Eagle River and Piney River.
3. Jolu1 Bickerman discussed the Global Settlement negotiations.
February 25, 2008
1. Stan Cazier and Carlyle Currier led a discussion of what the CBRT would like the Colorado
River to look like in 50 years with respect to water supplies. Roundtable members recommended
that sources of water be addressed in local land plamung decisions; that agriculture should not be
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