Minutes Sep 2008x

• Basin Roundtable: Colorado
• Title: Colorado Minutes 9/08
• Date: 9/22/2008
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

1. After the issue is discussed, Roundtable members have time to go back
to their stakeholders for their input and consensus.
2. Develop procedures to decide how the matter will be voted on and
when a vote will be taken.
3. Pick narrowly defined areas where consensus is likely.
4. Permit Roundtable members to withdraw and not sign on to the
motion.
e. Members suggested the following topics would be candidates for CBRT
policy positions:
1. Ballot Amendment 52 to cap severance tax revenues and divert them
to Interstate 70 improvements.
2. Water bank loans in times of drought - what if this affects downstream
shallow aquifer well users?
Complete the non-consumptive needs assessments before going
forward with water diversions.
4. Will the prior appropriations system control how water is diverted to
develop energy supplies, or will a new collaborative process emerge?
1041 powers: This is the only tool that local Boards of County
Commissioners possess to consider how water rights are being used on
(or severed from) land.
6. Develop a protocol for transferring water between basins.
7. Should the CBRT attempt to affect policies established by the
Colorado River Water Conservation District?
8. Can the Front Range purchase water rights that pre-date the 1922
Colorado River compact?
9. Tom Clark recommended that we discuss what role risk plays in water
use decisions.
10. Dick Proctor recommended that we discuss CWCB's policy that water
rights holders must transfer water rights to the CWCB if a project is
funded by the CWCB.
11. Pre-1922 water rights holders should be careful to use and not abandon
their water rights.
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