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CON d Rb <br />Colorado Water <br />yr�Ei� <br />7r� <br />x <br />North Platte River <br />Conservation Board <br />Rod Kuharich, Director <br />aDan <br />°�• <br />McAuliffe, Deputy Director <br />Basin Planning Meeting <br />www.cwcb.state.co.us <br />Policy and Planning Needs Identified by Participants <br />• Assure that the 1988 agreement not to file below the lowest point of diversion in the basin be <br />recognized <br />• Oppose changing the board membership to reflect population rather than by water basin <br />• Concerns over constraints on water use and the U.S. Forest Service trying to takeover water rights <br />Identified Technical Assistance Needs <br />• Aide in negotiations with U.S. Forest Service on water rights and water use <br />• Use instream flows program to protect endangered species <br />• Continue to work to keep new species from being listed <br />• Provide financial support to farmers and ranchers to remain in the agricultural business and in <br />exchange they will not sell their excess water <br />• Concerns regarding the Three States Agreement and alternatives to the Boyle Report <br />• Concerns over water management practices and stream depletion by the U. S. Forest Service in the <br />headwaters of the North Platte <br />Identified Potential Water Projects <br />• Construct treatment plant for the town of Walden <br />• Use the CWCB construction fund to purchase instream flow rights to prevent the dry up of <br />agricultural lands <br />