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<br />treatment plants and primary contact recreation segments, so that once the bottom drops out in <br />terms of low flows that we would go "ah, here's a segment where we could have potential <br />problems", so we would really keep an eye on that. So, that's kind of a quick and dirty on the <br />impacts and how we're trying to get a leg up on it. Questions? <br /> <br />_ - Our experience has been that you also might well consider wells. They get contaminated <br />very early in one of these processes, and it sounds as through you're really on top of this, and in <br />your discussions with USGS, it's a valuable point to bring up, so that you know when wells <br />become contaminated. Because it's an early indicator, at least that's what it's been in the past. <br /> <br />- Have you had to do anything in the area of financial assistance to any water supply and <br />water treatment facility at this point? <br /> <br />Carl - Not at this point. We have had some calls come in with a couple of systems that have <br />already had some drought-related problems. And what we have done is referred them to <br />Department of Local Mfairs, because that seems to be at the present time where the reservoir <br />funds are. Two grant programs that we normally have were funded by the Legislature. . . <br /> <br />- That's what I wanted to know. Thanks. <br /> <br />Brad - Next, Municipal Water. Barry Cress? You still with us here? <br /> <br />Barry - I think so. I'm Barry Cress with the Department of Local Affairs. At the last meeting that <br />we had a month ago I had indicated and made available brochures for a set of workshops that we <br />were getting ready to put on, and we actually did conduct those on the second and third week of <br />May. We put on 6 of them around the state, Durango, Grand Junction, Silverthorne, Ft. Morgan, <br />Denver and Pueblo West. And these were related to water and sewer system management. We do <br />a series of these trainings pretty frequently. But this year we expanded our coverage of the <br />drought situation and talked about ways that folks can interact with the state system here and <br />direct input to us and get assistance from the State. One thing that I tried to do is gather <br />information from folks attending on what kind of impacts they were anticipating this summer. <br />And the first question I asked was, who is not expecting to meet demand this summer with their <br />water system? Only one system, the one that we _? _ many times before, Pinewood Springs up <br />in southern Larimer County, indicated that they didn't think they were going to be able to meet <br />demand this year. In fact, I think they're probably getting close right now to starting to haul <br />water. The second question was how many systems out there are expected to need to do a capital <br />construction project related to water supply this year. And we roughly had about one system per <br />_? -' so roughly six, maybe six to eight systems indicated that they had that kind of a project on <br />tap for this year, but they all indicated that it wasn't indicated to this year's weather, that it was <br />more a well-knit plan project. So we may be working with some of them to get some ofthese <br />proj ects financed. <br /> <br />Brad - How many systems did you say? <br /> <br />Barry - We had right about 75 systems participate. There were about 180 folks that signed up for <br />the workshops, a lot of system sent more than 1 person, there were also engineers and fmance <br /> <br />34 <br />