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vPtE�EpNSEp <br />San Juan - Dolores- <br />Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board <br />x <br />Rod Kuharich, Director <br />v� <br />San Miguel River <br />Dan McAuliffe, Deputy Director <br />' <br />Basin Planning Meetings <br />www.cwcb.state.co.us <br />Policy and Planning Needs Identified by Participants <br />• Develop a conservation fund loan that would enable citizens to acquire instream flows to protect fisheries <br />• Develop dry year leases for instream flow that would enable water rights to be used to help fisheries when <br />there is too little water available to plant crops or keep cattle on land <br />• Oppose changing the board membership to reflect population rather than by water basin <br />• Review and comment on appropriateness and reasonableness of increase flows below McPhee Reservoir to <br />help the communities below the confluence between the Dolores and San Miguel Rivers <br />• Review state policy and position regarding instream flow filings in the San Miguel Basin on the San Miguel <br />downstream of Fall Creek as a joint recommendation of the Division of Wildlife and the Bureau of Land <br />Management and a filing under consideration in the upper San Miguel that was being developed in <br />cooperation with an upper basin water rights group <br />• Support for and against additional instream flow rights in the San Juan Basin <br />Identified Technical Assistance Needs <br />• Provide funding and technical assistance on the development of a new water and sanitation district to treat <br />water to be delivered to 10 subdivisions in Western La Plata County <br />• Conduct studies of more efficient irrigation practices <br />• Request for a modification in an instream flow right from 29 cubic feet per second (cfs) to 20 cfs in the <br />vicinity of the Rio Blanco stream restoration project <br />• Develop water resource management plans with a planning process to include environmental, recreational <br />and water quality concerns <br />• Provide technical assistance in the development of a drought plan for San Miguel County <br />• Facilitate discussions between ditch company boards to develop new water storage <br />• Use CDSS and water availability analyses to track and manage growth <br />• Study of future water needs and the potential impacts on instream flows <br />• Need technical support regarding the impacts of instream flow rights on water right filing and federal <br />agencies' approach to the San Miguel Water Conservation District filings <br />• Feasibility study of storage for fisheries, particularly to address issues related to impacts on recreational <br />boating <br />Identified Potential Water Projects <br />• Loan for a dual water system in the town of Mancos and a possible grant for issues of statewide concern in <br />the La Plata Basin <br />• Construction of a dam on Long Hollow (near the CO and NM boarder) <br />• Raw water storage project in Archuleta County with the San Juan Water Conservation District <br />• Development of Cone Reservoir and Salt Tide Reservoir <br />• Financial and technical assistance to stop the leakage and leachates from the Silver Creek Mine that are <br />penetrating into the Dolores water <br />• Funding for agricultural portion of Water for Everyone Tomorrow Package ( WETPACK) to lease water <br />from Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company for agricultural land <br />• Funding for fisheries portion of WETPACK including storage site evaluations <br />• Floodplain restoration projects near Norwood, San Miguel, and Upper Blanco <br />• Water storage to address lower basin requirements for instream flows and other water uses <br />• New water systems needed for several towns including Telluride, Ophir, South Park and others <br />