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➢ Ski areas are USFS permittees <br />➢ Outcome of 2002 Drought: <br />• Expand Reservoir storing and new projects <br />• Cloud Seeding proposals <br />• Have been working with municipality to keep water in streams <br />• 2002 made job tougher for balancing competing needs <br />• Senior versus junior rights within prior appropriations <br />o Lots more will be done with flexible applications of prior appropriation <br />➢ Secondary Impacts: <br />• Working with water providers <br />• Old Municipal systems were not very flexible <br />• They did not have adequate contingency plans <br />SeEtta Moss <br />➢ Round Tables not created yet <br />➢ Impact of 2002 Drought: <br />o Call on the Arkansas River <br />• Canon City nearly lost water despite their senior rights <br />• Became clear that prior appropriation and the inequality of senior versus junior <br />rights <br />• Need for drought plans <br />What could we have done better in 2002? <br />Debrah: <br />➢ Policies have still not changed regarding landscaping <br />➢ Water use could be reduced <br />➢ Better education <br />Eric <br />➢ No one should plan based on average conditions: "critical yield, firm yield" <br />➢ Roundtables: May have added urgency and sped up negotiations <br />What would have helped? <br />➢ Build contingencies <br />➢ Contingency planning <br />➢ Determine how resilient firm yield is for water systems <br />➢ Measure /document the impact on agriculture community <br />➢ Land use and water planning in terms of drought planning <br />➢ Education of news <br />➢ Policies and regulations regarding landscape use <br />➢ More collaboration <br />➢ Land use planning with water resources in mind <br />➢ Contingency planning based on critical /firm yield: i.e. plan for the worst not the normal <br />➢ Question still remains: Runoff peak flow as function of April 1 snowpack (Do low <br />snowpacks result in an earlier meltout ?) <br />