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Colorado Water Availability Task Force TO: Members of the Colorado Water Availability TaskForce FROM: Brad Lundahl, Water Availability Task Force Chair DATE: February 26, 2003 SUBJECT: Minutes of the Wednesday, February 19,2003, Task Force Meeting The meeting was held on Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at Camp George West, Golden. Those in recorded attendance included: Brad Lundahl, Jack Byers, Bill Hansen, JeffTranel, Keith Vander Horst, Klaus Wolter, Bob Glancy, Mike Gillespie, Dawn Taylor, Jack Truby, JeffBrislawn, Bob Steger, Scott Archer, Roger Pielke, Sr., Brett N. Rodewald, Carolyn Armstrong, Marilyn Gaily, John Gordon, Jerd Smith, Theo Stein, Brad Udall, Aimee Heckel, Robert Webb, Kevin Riordan, Paul Flack, and Kathie Lucid. Meeting began at 1:07 P.M. Brad Lundahl. Colorado Water Conservation Board. W ATF Chair Brad Lundahl welcomed the group to the meeting with opening remarks. He set the April Water Availability TaskForce meeting date (April 23, 10:00 am). Mr. Lundahl reported that the Impact Task Force had met during the previous week and were given assignments to prepare a report to identify drought impacts and describe possible mitigation measures. Mr. Lundahl said he is hoping to have the fmal report ready in time for the March 19 W A TF meeting. Dawn Tavlor. Colorado Department of Natural Resources Ms. Taylor stated that she was filling in for John Swartout, from the Governors Office. She reported that the Governor had released his legislative water agenda on the previous Friday. She provided copies ofthe Governors press release associated to the water package. Mike Gillespie. Natural Resource Conservation Service INRCS) Mr. Gillespie explained that snowpack levels had declined from 85% during January to 71 % of average on February 1,2003. He stated that recent storms had brought current levels to approximately 77% of average. The Arkansas Basin had seen an approximate 13% gain recently. Since 1968, there have been only six February's of recorded below average snowpack. Mr. Gillespie also stated that our snowpack is presently above last years at this same time and that we are ahnost where we were last year when we peaked out. In fact, he said anything received after this date will make our snowpack better than last year.