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North Platte Basin Roundtable Meeting Minutes, 08.26.2008 <br />Parks District, USFS Conference Room <br />Minutes Submitted by Curran Trick <br />Members/Guests Present <br />Jim Dustin <br />Rick Wyatt <br />Mike Allnutt <br />Bob Timberman <br />Mike Wright <br />Deb Alpe <br />John Rich <br />Greg Kernohan <br />Meeting called to order. <br />The Roundtable Chair, Kent Crowder, is absent due to another meeting. Debbie Alpe is <br />acting as chair in his place. <br />Approval of minutes front 07.22.08: <br />There is not a quorum of voting members present at the meeting, therefore the minutes <br />from 07.22.08 cannot be approved. They will be approved next meeting. <br />Presentation by Greg Kernohan, Ducks Unlimited, Seeking a letter of support for DU's <br />W.SRA application to the S. Platte Roundtable: <br />Greg gave an overview of the Ducks Unlimited application, "South Platte Water <br />Protection and Restoration." <br />Conservation easements are a portion of this application that they have submitted, which <br />are supposed to guarantee the water right for the state to perpetuity. <br />DT ranch is part of this application: Recharge project for the Ft. Morgan canal company. <br />Duck migration + recharge correlate in timing. <br />The recharge credits can go to ag, industrial, municipal, environmental, or recreation <br />Rick W: can you explain how the recharge will work? <br />Greg K: The S. Platte program is a junior right, they take the water out of the river, the <br />water will go back into the aquifer and return to the river in about 120 days, then the ag <br />users can use it. The project is providing credits for junior well users. The state gets the <br />credits. The recharge credits don't just go to the M &I gap, they go to everyone. <br />DT Ranch, Fender, and Heyborne are the conservation easements they are asking for.