WATFSummaryMarch2006

• Title: Joint Task Force Meeting Summary
• Date: 3/14/2006
• Description: Summary
• Basin: Statewide
• Drought Mitigation - Doc Type: WATF Meeting Summary

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. Agricultural Impacts (Jim Miller Dept. of Agr.) - The wind has been bad this year. That
wildfire took out 26,000 acres. It was a fuse that fell out of a transformer. Ranchers are already
buying hay and supplies are quite low.

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. US Army Corp of Engineers (Marty Timmerwilke & Tom Ryan) - The Corps has programs for
flood fighting and flood control, advanced and flood control measures.
. FEMA (Dan Carlson) - if there was a disaster then it would go through Homeland Security and
the Division of Emergency Management. Federal disasters are declared only after exceeding
local capacity. They are partnering with the CWCB for floodplain mapping.
. Division of Emergency Management (Marilyn Gaily) The 24 hour number is [phone]
after hours goes this number goes to dispatch. [phone] is the number during normal
hours. Department of Local Affairs has 15 field staff that work with local governments. The
Stafford Act requires updates Hazard Mitigation Plans. The Flood aspect was done recently and
they may update the Drought annex as well.
. Colorado mitigation wildfire conference April 23'd hoping this year the flood folks can attend.
. "Managing Drought and Water Scarcity in Vulnerable Environments" - There is a meeting
announcement and call for papers that was handed out at the meeting. With questions about this
meeting call Deborah Nelson at (303) 357-10 14 or [e-mail]
. USGS (Bob Jarrett) - The USGS has a program starting in Arizona related to meeting on urban
hazard issues related to developed channels and with time vegetation comes in and what are the
effects. The USGS has national project to develop new values for the engineering "Mannings n".
The USGS has a Drought webpage with 25 key sites in Colorado. Doug Cain - the USGS is
starting to put together materials to commemorate the Big Thompson flood.
. USBR (Steve Hunter) - Steve Hunter gave an update on the Snow Data Assimilation
(SNODAS) project they are working on for the CWCB and Colorado. It's an applied research
project and unlike an operational model and should be considered experimental. This project
develops snowpack spatial average values and there is an online archive going back 2.5 years.
Steve also requested to present to the W A TF at a future meeting about cloud seeding and plans
for a basin-wide augmentation program for the seven Colorado River Basin States.
. SNODAS for Cloud Seeding Calculations - There are many applications for high-resolution
snowpack data. For a recent study Steve took a 10% increase in target areas to determine that
there is about 870,000 AF of potential for additional water if enhanced cloud seeding was
pursued in the upper basin states of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah.
. Senator Wayne Allard's Office (Jeanette Alberg) attended and stated that she appreciates all
the work the experts do to keep on top of conditions.

Flood Protection. Water Project Planning and Finance. Stream and Lake Protection
Water Supply Protection. Conservation Planning