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<br />. Colorado Water Court can determine final amounts of replacement plan credits to be used. <br /> <br />After receiving and considering comments from both states, the Special Master will finalize his Forth <br />.Report and the entire case will then be before the Supreme Court for final action. <br /> <br />Arkansas River Compact Administration: We have begun preparations for the 2003 annual ARCA <br />meeting that will be held in Lamar on Dec. 8-9. Steve Witte, the ARCA Operations Secretary, has <br />submitted his report on further efforts to resolve disputed accounting issues at John Martin Reservoir. <br />While there has only been limited progress the report is a good road map for moving ahead. In this <br />process we are also working with DOW and ARCA to amend procedures for evaporation accounting on <br />the JMR permanent pool and securing approval of a new source of water to offset that evaporation. <br /> <br />Colorado River Basin <br /> <br />Conference at Bishops Lodge: I will be attending a conference at Bishops Lodge in Sante Fe entitled <br />"The Ties that Bind: Policy and the Evolving Law of the Colorado River: Discussions about the Colorado <br />River and the policies that continue to shape its role in the West: drought, salinity, Salton Sea, recreation, <br />tribal water rights, international water affairs." I will share my experience with you at our meeting. <br /> <br />CRWUA Conference: The 58th Annual CRWUA Conference will be held at Caesars' Palace in Las <br />Vegas December 10 - 12, 2003. For more information visit htto://crwua.org. <br /> <br />Reclamation Lets Contract To Build Fish Passage: On Sept. 9 Reclamation announced it had awarded <br />a $4.5 million contract to construct a concrete-lined passage facility for endangered fish at the Grand <br />Valley Project Diversion Dam on the Colorado River in Debeque Canyon. <br /> <br />The fish passage will give the endangered Colorado pikeminnow, razorback sucker, and bonytail access to <br />critical habitat that has been blocked since the 14-foot-high diversion dam was completed in 1917. The <br />Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program has identified this habitat as needed to <br />.establish self-sustaining populations of the endangered fishes. <br /> <br />Fish passages are already in place at the Redlands Diversion Dam on the Gunnison River and the Grand <br />Valley Irrigation Company Diversion Dam on the Colorado River. <br /> <br />Experiment to Benefit Native Fish Expanded IIi Grand Canyon: On Aug. 15 the Glen Canyon Dam <br />Adaptive Management Program announced an expansion of the program to benefit the endangered <br />humpback chub in a small section of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. Trout and other non-native <br />fish are known to feed upon native <br />humpback chub. The experiment entails <br />removing these species of fish to give <br />humpback chub a better chance at <br />survival and hopefully, increased <br />reproduction and recruitment. <br /> <br />The area being targeted is in a portion of <br />the Grand Canyon seldom fished by <br />anglers, other than river rafters. The <br />current proj ect area is 10 miles long and <br />approximately 60 miles downstream <br />from Lees Ferry, which is a renowned <br />trout fishery below Glen Canyon Dam. <br />The proposed modification would <br />expand the experiment seven miles <br />downstream, to a point 12 miles below <br />the mouth ofthe Little Colorado River. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br /> <br />.. <br />......~'F <br />-Glen Canyon Da <br />,;r: <br />Lees Fertyj:j<.1\" <br /> <br />Dis181'1C8.ffom <br />l,ee$F'ol!IN)'1C1 <br />~~IR<1/Xt1. <br />.sGfbwr.Mllll$ <br /> <br />i! <br /> <br />~,~ <br /> <br />11 <br />