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• Board Meeting Date: 11/18/2008
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Mexico, including efforts to reconcile calculation and measurement differences of the salinity differential
required under Minute 242 of the US -Mexico Treaty. The Forum noted the untimely deaths of the US
and Mexican IBWC Commissioners in a plane crash while surveying flooding on the Rio Grande this fall,
and instructed the Executive Director to send a letter to the Carlos Marin family expressing its
condolences and gratitude for Carlos' service to the Basin States.
We have learned that at least two Colorado water user entities have been successful in competing for
funds from Reclamation's Basinwide Program. As we find out more about their proposals we will be
looking for opportunities to provide support and perhaps financial assistance as maybe needed. The
CRBSC Work Group will meet next in February 2009 to consider new research proposals and procedures
for the Advisory Council's role in the new Basin States Program. The Forum and Advisory Council meet
again in May 2009 in Moab, UT. (Steve Millet)
PLATTE RIVER BASIN
CHATFIELD RESERVOIR REALLOCATION PROJECT: CWCB staff continues to work
with a large coalition of interested stakeholders to pursue water supply storage space in Chatfield
Reservoir. The Corps recently updated its cost and schedule estimates as part of the on-going Feasibility
Cost Share Agreement (FCSA) with the CWCB. The Scope and Cost Revision Request (SACCR) was
informally approved by staff as done in previous years. The CWCB and local participants remain in
balance with the Corps as part of the 50/50 cost share requirement. CWCB Director Jennifer Gimbel
spoke briefly about the project during her recent presentation at the South Platte Forum held in
Longmont. A Chatfield presentation was also given by Tom Browning at the Cherry Creek Stewardship
Partners conference in early November. In related news, aone-page informational flyer has been
developed for the study, and copies will be distributed to the public over the next several months. (Toni
Browning)
PLATTE RIVER RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM (PRRIP): The Platte
River Recovery Implementation Program will hold its next Governance Committee meeting in Denver on
December 2-3, 2008.
The G.C. held the October meeting in Kearney, Nebraska on October 7-8, 2008, and one of the main
focuses of that meeting was the development of the 2009 budget. This budget will be finalized at the
December meeting.
The committee continues to implement the Program through its various committees and subcommittees.
In particular, there are a number of parcels of land that the Program has advanced through Land Advisory
Committee and the rest of the Program land review process. The Program hopes to acquire some of these
lands within the near future.
The Adaptive Management Work Group continues to develop protocols and implement the integrated
monitoring and research plan. This fall, the Program cooperated with other federal, state, and local
agencies to install additional gages on the Platte River within the program area. In addition, the Program
is working with the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources and other local agencies to address the
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