IBCC Representative Comments

• Title: IBCC Representative Comments on Visioning
• Date: 3/6/2008
• Interbasin CC - Doc Type: Correspondence/Memos

• Whatever is done will be environmentally impactive.
• More equitable distribution of population to resources to avoid impacts. West Slope
urban development will lead to less impact and is out of balance with trying to
maintain pristine environment on West Slope.
• Factors leading to increased west slope development
• Unsustainable front range development
• Jobs, transportation, educational opportunities.
• Quality of life
• Population growth
• Grand Junction warmer, close to ski areas.
• Colorado leader in analyzing water through DSS but should be the best.
• Everything should be discussed.
• We need a way to look at "what if" scenarios. There are going to be trade-offs to
any decisions and we should look at those.
• Question: If you were Water Czar, what would you do?
- Find resources, analyze options, use technology to show trade-offs.
- Build well-placed infrastructure such as storage that will be needed for capturing
increasingly erratic flows.
- In areas now being paved, how to manage the runoff?
- Educate population on the future. Need consensus because it will cost money.
- Las Vegas framework - develop supplies thru other sources - desal (ocean)
and/or pipelines from somewhere else. With infrastructure can implement greater
reuse.
- Help the environment
- Upstream and downstream reservoirs to manage recreational and.
environmental flows.
- Integrate management of ground water/surface water. Manage water rights on
volumetric rather then direct flow - need big reservoirs to completely control the
system & firm yield.
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