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Max Smith <br />Grant Bledsoe <br />Dennis Coryell <br />Doug Shriver <br />Earnest Mikita <br />Robert Loose <br />Corey Huwa <br />Commissioners who represent agriculture: <br />—Max Smith, Southern High Plains; <br />—Grant Bledsoe, Northern High Plains; <br />— Dennis Coryell, Northern High Plains; <br />—Doug Shriver, Rio Grande Basin; <br />— Earnest Mikita, Upper Big Sandy; <br />— Robert Loose, Kiowa- Bijou; and <br />—Corey Huwa, Lost Creek. <br />Larry Clever <br />Commissioners who represent municipal and industrial <br />water users: <br />—Frank Jaeger, Front Range; and <br />—Larry Clever, West Slope. <br />State law mandates that the commission must conduct <br />public meetings at least four times per year. Attendance and <br />public participation at the commission meetings depends on <br />the agenda items. Regular meetings attract 30 to 40 partici- <br />pants, and controversial issues can draw even more attendees, <br />Ahrens says. <br />Hal Simpson, Ex- Officio <br />Russell George, Ex- Officio <br />GROUNDWATER CATEGORIES <br />Groundwater in Colorado is regulated depending on its <br />location and relationship to surface streams. Four main catego- <br />ries are recognized by state law: <br />Tributary groundwater— Groundwater hydraulically connected <br />to a surface stream that can influence the amount or direc- <br />tion of flow of water in that stream. It is regulated by the <br />prior appropriation system, like other surface water rights. <br />Non - tributary groundwater— Groundwater which in 100 years <br />will not deplete the flow of a natural stream at an annual <br />rate greater than 1 /10th of 1 percent of the annual depletion <br />from the well. <br />Designated basin groundwater— Groundwater that under natural <br />conditions would not be used to recharge or supplement <br />continuously flowing surface streams. It is specific to deep <br />groundwater underlying the eight designated basins cre- <br />ated by the Colorado Ground Water Commission, on the <br />eastern plains. <br />Not non - tributary groundwater— Denver Basin groundwater, not <br />in a designated basin, that is connected with surface <br />streams or the deeper Denver Basin aquifers where they <br />outcrop. If pumped, these withdrawals would deplete the <br />flow of a natural stream at an annual rate greater than <br />1 /10th of 1 percent, the annual rate of withdrawal. J <br />24 COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR WATER EDUCATION <br />