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STATE OF COLORADO <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 721 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone: (303) 866-3441 <br />FAX: (303) 866-4474 <br />www.cwcb.state.co.us <br />MEMORANDUM <br />To: Governance Committee-GC, Platte River Recovery Implementation <br />Program (PRRIP) <br />From: Ted Kowalski, State of Colorado, GC Alt. Representative <br />Alan Berryman, Colorado Water User GC Member <br />Date: March 29, 2007 <br />Re: Cumulative Effect Report for Colorado's Plan for Future Depletions <br />Bill Ritter, Jr. <br />Governor <br />Harris D. Sherman <br />Executive Directar <br />Rod Kuharich <br />CWCB Director <br />Dan McAuliffe <br />Deputy Director <br />This document contains the average monthly distribution of the Cumulative Effect from anticipated <br />new Colorado water related activities in the Initial Reporting Period (Years 2007 and 2008). The <br />report is provided pursuant to the PRRiP, Attachment 5, Section 9, and Paragraph E of Colorado's <br />Plan for Future Depletions (CPFD) dated October 24, 2006. In addition, I have attached a letter <br />from the State Demographer, pursuant to the PRRIP, Attachment 5, Section 9, and Paragraph I.A of <br />CPFD. <br />Executive Summarv <br />Colorado's population in the South Platte drainage has increased from its July 1, 19971eve1 of <br />2,719,941 to a projected 2009 population of 3,396,638. The increase by region is as follows: <br />Region July 1, 1997 to January 1, 2009 <br />Increase <br />North 182,160 <br />Central 312,360 <br />South 182,177 <br />Total 676,697 <br />Water use assumptions have not matched actual uses due to the 2000-2007 drought. Native South <br />Platte diversions have been less than, and municipal reuse greater than, the amounts originally <br />assumed. This change will result in a lower replacement obligation for Colorado if the Governance <br />Committee agrees to adjust the assumptions contained in the CPFD. This report includes the net <br />water (accretions minus depletions) Colorado has added to the river, and the May-June depletions, <br />using both the original assumptions and the adjusted assumptions.