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<br />PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT <br /> <br />The District's public involvement efforts <br /> <br />Throughout this study, the District has employed a variety of means to keep the <br />public informed regarding the project and the potential contract arrangements, and to <br />obtain input from members of the public. Oral methods have included formal <br />presentations and interactive sessions at both large public meetings and smaller groups, <br />in addition to one-on-one contacts. Various written methods have been used to reach <br />different audiences, or to address the same audience in different ways. A summary of <br />public involvement efforts on the project follows. <br /> <br />Meetings and presentations <br /> <br />The District's spring and fall ''water users' meetings" provide a regular forum for <br />communicating with C-BT unit-holders and other interested parties about issues relating <br />to District operations. Attendees at these meetings include a variety of persons who may <br />not own C-BT units but are interested in water issues in northern Colorado, including <br />public officials, realtors, water brokers, environmentalists, and the press. The District has <br />included in these meetings a number of sessions regarding the interruptible supply <br />contracts project. <br /> <br />In a brief presentation at the Spring 1994 water users' meeting, the consultant and <br />the District's staff engineer responsible for the project provided an introduction to the <br />concept of interruptible supply contracts and explained how such contracts would be used <br />in the context of integrated operations of the C-BT and Windy Gap water projects. The <br />presenters also explained the phases of the study funded by the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board grant, including background research, public involvement efforts, and <br />preparation of recommendations to the District's board. <br /> <br />At the Fall 1994 water users' meeting, the consultant gave a presentation that <br />included an overview of the information in her written report completed at the close of <br />the project's first phase, copies of which were available at the meeting. In addition, <br />attendees were encouraged to return after lunch for an informal question-and-answer <br />session with the consultant and members of the District staff, including the District's <br />general manager, associate general manager, and others involved in the project. At this <br />session, which was attended by approximately two dozen people and lasted about two <br />hours, attendees were invited to ask any questions they had about interruptible supply <br />contracts or how such arrangements might be used in the District, and to express any <br />comments or concerns they had about the use of such contracts. . <br /> <br />Agricultural users, who are potential transferors under interruptible supply <br />contracts and are most likely to be concerned about the operation and impacts of such <br />contracts, were an important target audience of public involvement efforts. An effective <br /> <br />5 <br />