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2. Better seasonal forecasting <br />3. Better interpretation of climate information <br />4. More storage would help (however, not sure how warming will affect storage yields) <br />5. Basin -wide cooperation: IBCC helps somewhat <br />Joe Barsugli's Group <br />[Page 17; Durango Breakout Session #1 Drought] <br />Drought <br />2002- Call on Animas [ Silverton jr. water rights] —first time ever <br />Division Engineer not shut down [ the division engineer did not shut down the water supply to <br />Silverton despite the call] <br />Silverton undertook augmentation plan -> Molas Lake [has rights to the] top two feet <br />Potential to raise dam. <br />No storage — all natural flows; concerned about flow. <br />Felicity Mancos [area] — 2002 "terrible time with water" <br />Ag. left fields fallow so town would have water. "Part of same community" <br />Concern about instream flow <br />"downstream" historic water conflicts; Tribe and Mesa Verde [National Park] <br />"fights" in town hall meeting about instream flow. <br />Deanna; 2002 Valley Fire <br />Well water went low — [ this became] a major concern when fighting the fire; 8 houses burned <br />[community reacted] put water meters in at the house <br />solar pumps on wells [ incase power outage due to fire] <br />electric lines over lake .. helicopter problems / fire fighting — re- routed lines [ elecric lines over a <br />lake interfered with helicopters used to get water for firefighting; as a result the lines were re- <br />routed around the lake] <br />[Page 18] <br />Brooke; <br />Dolores River dialog <br />DOW fish pool decreased <br />Farmers have senior water rights <br />Bruce: (La Plata River Dairy Farm 160b ac) <br />Started irrigation that year but there was no water <br />New Mexico Pact '/2 of water at Hesperus must cross NM line on a daily basis. <br />Futile call [ water could not physically make it to NM] allowed some irrigation on his part. <br />