Oct 14 08 South Platte Minutes

• Basin Roundtable: South Platte
• Title: South Platte Minutes 10/08
• Date: 10/14/2008
• Basin Roundtables - Doc Type: Minutes

South Platte Basin Roundtable
Meeting Minutes
October 14, 2008
Longmont, CO
Southwest Weld County Building
4209 Weld County Rd 24'/2
4:00 - 8:00
Please contact Lisa McVicker (mcvicker(&clwestoffice.net) with any changes or corrections.
Thank you.
JimYahn Chairs the Meeting tonight as Bill Jerke will not be present until later in the
evening.
4:00 - 5:00 Standard Reports
• IBCC report later in meeting
• CWCB: Todd Dohertv and Eric Wilkinson
--Plan on March 17-18, 2009 meeting in Longmont;
--Board passed amendment in opposition to Initiative 52; caps money in
construction fund and puts excess into transportation fiend; opposes this
because of impact;
--Board reviewed Tamarisk guidelines; adopted in November;
--discussion of mitigation plan for projects that include federal funding;
requirement that the project proponent must develop wildlife mitigation
plan; this must be brought before wildlife commission and approved by
CWCB; if dispute. goes to Governor for arbitration; this establishes
mitigation fund that CWCB administers;
--CWCB in process of developing data base to monitor process of
projects;
--meeting between US and Mexico on sharing CO river; issue for us
because of amount of water that is transported into South Platte;
--discussion of visioning exercise; CWCB wants to move forward;
--discussion of guidelines for administering and distribution of funds;
--update on zebra mussel issue in CO;
--issue of approval of letters of commitment for Chatfield; this should be
finalized with all participants;
--discussions and rule malting process is scheduled to begin in
November: de minimis rule and instream flow rights 'kvill be amended in
November; deal with implied subordination; thus board and staff are
tiring to clear up concerns over concept of subordination in relationship
to instream flows; rule making in Nov meeting;
--review of 22 Water Supply Account applications; 16 approved: 3 from
South Platte: Ducks Unlimited; Arickaree kvell retirement and grant for
Halligan Seaman planning model; one application was withdrawn and
five were tabled because of concerns re: amount of info presented and
concern for allocation of funds between basin wide funds and state wide