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Ground Water Model Consumptive Use Model Water Budget Model Documentation - available to the public on the web Arkansas DSS Feasibility Study Begin Late 2008 Complete in approximately one year DSS Advisory Committee - Roundtable subcommittee? Needs - interviews with basin water users/roundtable Data assessment DSS components needed Alternatives - proposed alternative Report-DSS implementation road map Implementation The following year. Approved by CWCB board Please study the report that was given out and emailed to roundtable members. Needs Assessment Subcommittee Report CSU Study Update: there have been a series of meetings between CWCB's DSS group and with the CSU/Gates study. For example, water quality has not been addressed in the CWCB DSS studies, and will be addressed by the CSU study. We have an opportunity as a roundtable to provide assistance to CWCB by coordinating the two. CSU will also assist CWCB in developing their scope of work. Guidelines for Water Transfers: Lawrence Sena, Dan Henrichs, Wayne Vanderschuere The report, "Considerations for Agriculture to Urban Water Transfers" has been produced. Please review carefully over the next month, as the roundtable will vote to adopt the guidelines next month. The subcommittee will also be presenting the report to the CWCB. The roundtable can then decide what to do with the report from there. 4. Water Supply Reserve Account Grant Requests Project: Bedload Sediment Collection and Removal Technology for Fountain Creek - introduced by Alan Hamel Scott Hobson, Planner, City of Pueblo, Stormwater Utility The project is a 20 foot long collector, to be placed in Fountain Creek, 2,100 feet north of the confluence of Fountain Creek and the Arkansas River. The collector is a pre-cast concrete collector. It will collect the sediments that flow along the bottom of the creek. The slurry separates in the collector, and the water flows back into the creek. The collector can separate different grades of sediment. The project has collaborated with the USGS and the US Bureau of Reclamation, among other agencies. As part of the project, they will study whether this will provide a more consistent channel for Fountain Creek. Will also study whether there is a more consistent channel that will impact vegetation around the edges of the creek. They will study the quantity of material removed from the creek and amount of heavy metals removed from the creek. This will go to the statewide fund. Funding request: $225,000. Total project cost: $383,000. City cash & in-kind match: $158,000. Pat Edelman: This device does not collect suspended material, just slurry that moves along the bottom. It will remove fine and coarse sands as well as gravel. One of the questions is how much sediment will float over the collector during high flows, when the most sediment moves down the river. Another question is about how the data collected will show the effects downstream, since the collector doesn't completely span the creek. Terry Rusher: Have any upstream communities been asked to contribute to this project? Roundtable consensus was reached. The application will move forward. Upper Black Squirrel Creek Ground Water Model-introduced by Gary Barber Cristy Radabaugh, Martin and Wood Water Consultants 2