CWCB Concerning the Application for Water Rights of Upper Gunnsion River Water Conservancy District Transcript

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District's recreational water right and that the District has in fact met the requirements of a reereational i?channel diversian and that the job of this boazd m considexuig all of that is to Iisten the evidence of unpact on Compact and development, impact on maximum utilization and make an assessment whether to -graut the applicatian or deny the applica4ion or grant the applica#ion wifih conditions. . Some of the potnts oa which you have to make find'mgs, I think the parties already have agreed on. There really isa't a dzspute and we're not intending to present a lot of evidence or take up your time wrth that. For example, nobody disputes that the Upper Cmmmson R.iver Water Conservancy Bishict is the sort of local government entrty that's authorized to seek a recreation0l in chann.el diversion. It's my undesstauiding, based on the 5taVs proposed recommendation to you; -that there really is no dispute, that the control sfructures that aze proposed for this whitewater course will m hict divert, capture and control and glaci? that water to ben.efieial use wit.hin the reach ofthe recreatianai m channel water right. We_don't.seem to haue a i"eant daspute over whether the reach is an appropriatereach and we don'# seem to have a signfficacit dispute over the question of access. You wfll he,ar some testimony &oria John DeVqre that there's a piece of the land wyderlying the river within the reach for which they are.ttegotiating"the purchase. But tha.t's not expected to be anything that wfll prevent the project from gving €orward. . _ So the most impartant issues to be paying attentioA to here, I think, and-giving some thaugbt to is-the: evidence showing tle impaet -an -... _. Compact development. And our vvitnesses will show that Conpabt development wM not be impaired. You wffl hear about he. ' . subordanati.on agreement - and those of you from ttiis part of the ' countiry are probably more than familiar.with it - but ttiis is an agree,ment dated Jutie 1, 2004 betwem the Bureau af Reclamation, . . CoiQrado S"tate Engineer, tho Colorado River Water Conservafibn Dis4rict and the Upper Gunnison District. It's au agreement that ' allows - CrH), maybe grou coulcl poinrt out these features while we talk about it on the ma.p - we can use that . oae right there, I fhink. I was . gomg to just - [unintelligble] that's discouraging when your own partner's aot paying attention Yeah, T wanted to point out where the different structures of the AspW unit ate located And - - Man: [uninteUigtble] reservoir, CrysW Dam and Reservoir is "in there aud ' thea Blue Mesa. Reservoir is the big one [tanintelligi`ble] Colorado Water Conservation $oard September 10, 2002 Hearing Transcript Page 11