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<br />Colorado
<br />Water Availability Task Force
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<br />TO: Members of the Colorado Water Availability Task Force
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<br />FROM: Brad Lundahl, Water Availability Task Force Chair
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<br />DATE: July 17, 2003
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<br />SUBJECT: Minutes of the Wednesday, July 16, 2003, Task Force Meeting
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<br />The meeting was held on Wednesday, July 16,2003, at the CSU Foothills Campus in Fort
<br />Collins, Colorado. Those in recorded attendance included: Brad Lundahl, Odie Bliss, Keith
<br />Vander Horst, Klaus Wolter, Bob Glancy, Mike Gillespie, Roger Pielke, Sr., Jack Truby, Scott
<br />Archer, Brett N. Rodewald, Reagan Waskom, Travis Tucker, Barry Cress, Joe Lambert, Wendy
<br />Schultz, Mary Halstead, Randal Ristau, Joe Busto, Bill Hansen, Scott Davis, Joey Bunch, Lori
<br />Ozzello, YoungHee Kim, Rob Wawrsinski, John Gordon, and Kathie Hepp-Lucki.
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<br />Meeting began at 11:12 a.m.
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<br />Brad Lundahl. Colorado Water Conservation Board, W A TF Chair
<br />Brad Lundahl welcomed the group to the meeting and requested everyone state their name and
<br />organization. Mr. Lundahl distributed a survey regarding the water availability task force
<br />meetings and asked they be returned to him by the end of the meeting. Mr. Lundahl announced
<br />that Bob McLavey, Department of Agriculture, had retired and that Kristen Corash, OSPB, had
<br />accepted another position and would not be attending the W A TF meetings.
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<br />John Swartout, Governors Office
<br />There was not a report from the Governor's office for this meeting; Mr. Swartout wasn't able to
<br />attend the meeting. However, Travis Tucker was present from the Governor's Office.
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<br />Mike Gillespie, Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS)
<br />Mr. Gillespie reported that as of July 1, 2003 the snowpack levels were at 32% of average. He
<br />explained our daily peak was April 10 at 93% of average. The melt out was nearly a month
<br />earlier than average. Mr. Gillespie stated that we were still in a .67 -inch snowpack deficit. He
<br />said we are at 3% of average for July thus far, and that July looks dry.
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<br />Mr. Gillespie explained that our river basins' reservoir storage recovered well. The South Platte
<br />is at 82% of average, the Colorado at 93%, Gunnison at 81 %, and the Rio Grande at only 32% of
<br />average, which was the lowest in the state. Overall statewide we were at 77%. He reported that
<br />statewide now we have an improvement overall in the last 12 months. Mr. Gillespie said that
<br />just about every basin is better than last year at this time; however we still have a million acre
<br />feet deficit still remaining, which is better than the deficit of last year. Statewide reservoir
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