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<br />Impact Task Force Reports <br /> <br />Barrv Cress, Department of Local Affairs <br />Mr. Cress stated they were working with a couple of projects, patching up distribution systems on <br />water lines, new storage tanks, and etc. He mentioned the town of Fraser is one of the projects <br />that is putting in new meters. Mr. Cress said there is probably a couple million dollars of projects <br />that will be going on this summer. He stated that the Emergency Impact Assistance Program is <br />the source where these projects are coming from, and there would be hearings in the Centennial <br />Building next week in this regard. <br /> <br />Bob Steger. Denver Water <br />Mr. Steger announced that Denver Water's reservoirs are slightly below nonnal, and at about <br />where they were last year at this time. He said they thought their reservoirs would peak between <br />74% and 98% full if they were lucky. Mr. Steger mentioned Denver's customers are continuing to <br />do a good job conserving water. <br /> <br />Wildfires--Forrest Service <br />Mr. Byers said he had spoke with Rich Homann less than two weeks ago, and one of the concerns <br />Rich wanted him to pass on to the W A TF if he was not able to attend, was that the issues and <br />concerns for wildfires have not gone away even though we have substantial snowpack and <br />potential for fires is down right now in the mountains. The snowpack may accomplish to provide <br />great growth for fuel in late summer and that will still be a critical fire danger, because the areas <br />near the Front Range and the South Platte basin still remain dry. (Western Wildfire Danger <br />workshops will be held in Boulder in about ten days.) <br /> <br />Agriculture-- <br />Reagan Waskom. CSU <br />Mr. Waskom reported that we now have the most favorable outlook for agriculture than we have <br />had in the last four years due to improved market opportunities, price levels, and moisture <br />conditions. He also said the winter wheat condition rated mostly good to fair. The good full <br />winter wheat growth resulted with less early spring wind erosion than observed in the past two to <br />three years. Mr. Waskom indicated we needed the spring moisture to keep wheat development on <br />track. He also mentioned that we have pockets of dry areas in the northwest and northeast <br />impacting the range and wheat. <br /> <br />The range and pasture conditions are 60% fair, 20% good and 20% poor to very poor. There has <br />been a big improvement over the past three springs. Mr. Waskom commented we need good <br />spring and early summer moisture to sustain range and pasture conditions. <br /> <br />Mr. Waskom reported that we had a mild and relatively dry February; March provided favorable <br />calving and lambing conditions, and we had slightly below average cattle and sheep death losses <br />over the winter months. Further, Mr. Waskom stated that sunflower acres are expected to triple at <br />the expense of corn acres due to insurance and market related factors and irrigation water <br />availability. <br />