CWCB Basin Plan Meetings 2000-2001

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PSBR CON Colorado Water 'r Rio Grande Conservation Board Rod Kuharich, Director c o Dan McAuliffe, Deputy Director 3 °�• •° a • l.1'3 a a 9 Basin Planning Meetings www.cwcb.state.co.us Policy and Planning Needs Identified by Participants • Include the headwaters restoration project as part of the basin's river restoration multiobjective program • Provide additional funding for river restoration programs • Clarify that funds are available directly to individuals or to a group, using a District, for headgate repairs • Provide education regarding water community's opposition to proposed Bureau of Land Management wilderness areas • Oppose changing the board membership to reflect population rather than by water basin • Strong support for the development of a basin flood plan • Concerns regarding New Mexico getting Colorado's water to meet water demands for the endangered Silvery Minnow to develop new water storage Identified Technical Assistance Needs • Feasibility study and /or demonstration project for the relining of cracked concrete ditches • Support demonstration grant programs • Develop flood plan as part of Alamosa restoration project • Support for the Colorado Decision Support System • Strong support for completion of a good groundwater model in Rio Grande Decision Support System • Increase coordination with Army Corps of Engineers on restoration projects • Package all of the river restoration programs taking place in the basin as a statewide model of multiobjective stream corridor programs with benefits for fish habitat, riparian corridors, farmer access to diversion structures, bank stabilization and flood protection • Request to develop a model to track water use conversion from agriculture to other uses, similar to the conversion of land use Identified Potential Water Projects • River restoration above South Fork, in the Closed Basin and in the Conejos River Basin • Headgate rehabilitation and replacement projects as identified by the Rio Grande Restoration Study • Additional storage above Terrace Reservoir for multiple purposes such as flood control and storage for endangered species releases • Headgate repairs along Alamosa River Other Issues Discussed Not Specific to the CWCB • State Engineers Office requested a two -year • Concerns regarding flooding following a state - extension to develop augmentation rules and ordered release from Terrace Reservoir regulations due to a delay with collecting data for the • Concerns that even though the Colorado RGDSS Division of Wildlife does not list a species as • Technical assistance form the Water Quality Control endangered, they are required to conduct a Commission in acquiring information on water recovery program if the federal government quality in the basin lists the species