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Harold: Even the people who wrote them did not get a copy. Go back and look at the <br />SWSI Conservation & Efficiency TRT M&I memo. All we are doing is studying and <br />there is not will to do the hard work. That is my message to CWCB. <br />Eric Wilkinson: We have been trying to pass this message along, stall tactics clearly <br />present. Important legislators that have shut down the GAP study, turned into CO water <br />river study. Boiling Engineering on board, long and arduous process. This will not come <br />up with a final number. To summarize some of the items said at last IBCC meeting in <br />Grand Junction: contrast of ag dryup and investigation of transbasin diversions. Iterated <br />by west slope legislators that west slope has no interest in transbasin diversions to keep <br />ag dryup on east slope. If there is not a push by front range to turn up the heat on <br />transbasin diversions, .... We are having a difficult time even getting going on <br />investigations. No willingness to address the issues. At end of IBCC meeting, message <br />was that west slope has no interest in transbasin diversions, only ag dryup. The emphasis <br />must be dryup of irrigated ag. So, why even talking about transbasin diversions. Or stop <br />growth. Comments to Harris Sherman were that if we cannot talk about transbasin <br />diversions or interbasin cooperation, then w,hv IBCC. IBCC can do visioning and <br />strategies, but no need for IBCC if no cooperation. <br />Harold Evans: Thus, by default, the metro will come get our water, and in the next 12 <br />vears, Metro will come get 20,000 acft and by 2030, another 25,000 acft. We in the South <br />Platte are lidding ourselves if we don't see Metro coming to get our water. South Platte <br />and tributaries must get state to see. Aurora is already at Platteville. <br />Sue Morea: Wav that you feel about Aurora and Metro is how Colorado Basin feels about <br />east slope. <br />Harold Evans: Providers must take care of their growth and only place for them to get <br />their water will be ag growth. See growth: Vesta, Lepprino, Avhere will corn and alfalfa <br />come from? We take credit for economic growth but where will water come from. <br />Sue Morea: Once we get through vision statement, dialogue on ag dryup will have to take <br />a hard look at any unappropriated water. <br />Bruce Gerk: Time is urgent. From a generational standpoint, 50 years is nothing. Once <br />water is off land, getting it back on land, unlikely. To take water from land, land will <br />change in its nature, getting this back into ag production when need is there, unlikely. To <br />not be willing to address issue of need for Front Range growth, irresponsible of <br />legislature. Resource lost to our grandchildren that is absolutely wrong. Fallowing is just <br />a different word for buy- and drv. <br />Janet Bell: Word is to keep everything calm for the next two years to make sure that Gov <br />Ritter is reelected. Thus, we seem to not have the voice for what we need to do. Utah did: <br />Envision Utah Plan. What can we do to find that leadership to confront these items? What <br />came out of SWSI 2, next steps are detailed. Who has the ear or the money to get the <br />attention of our leadership? We need an "envision Utah" here. Nothing came out of the <br />Drought conference. I saw no steps forward. No need to wait another 2 years for the end <br />of the CO River Studv. Seems like we must go forNvard to another level to express that <br />this is not acceptable. <br />Mike Shimmin: Big Picture and then we need to return to task at hand about visioning <br />statement. First: Bruce: Are you telling me that the state's policy is to prohibit the dryup <br />of ag land? We can do that. I have thrown out the idea that w-e need to prohibit oil <br />develop in this state... that is a way to respond. There are ways to respond. <br />Bruce Gerk: Yes, it is my firm belief that food production is too important to leave to the <br />markets. <br />Shimmin: As part of these discussions, I have thrown out several points. I think we need <br />to put other things on the table that might be viewed as radical thinking, to push back on <br />some of the stalling of west slope. West slope is enjoying benefits of east slope, <br />7