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<br /> <br />- <br /> <br />Basin Water Planning Meetings: We are in the process of scheduling water-planning meetings <br />throughout the state to discuss the need for future water storage an.d delivery projects. This is an effort to . <br />build support for the Statewide Water Supply and Delivery Investigation and get the word out about the <br />Drought Planning Assessment that will be distributed to water suppliers this fall. A schedule of the <br />meetings is as follows: <br /> <br />Meetings will begin at 7pm. The exact venues are yet to be determined. <br />July 29 Meeker . August 20 Grand Junction <br />July 30 Walden August 28 Winter Park <br />July 31 Steamboat Springs September 4 Colorado Springs <br />August 7 Durango September 5 Frisco <br />August 8 Montrose September 11 Gunnison <br />August 12 Monte Vista September 16 Fort Collins <br />August 13 Pueblo September 18 Denver <br />August 14 Lamar September 23 Parker <br />August 19 Glenwood Springs September 25 Thorton <br /> <br />Arkansas River Basin Issues <br /> <br />Lower Arkansas Water Management Association Request Loan Payment Deferral: The Board of <br />Directors of the Lower Arkansas Water Management Association (LA WMA) has requested a loan <br />payment deferral for one of their CWCB Construction Fund loans. <br /> <br />LA WMA's $122,000 loan paymentfor Contract #C-153715 is due May 1 of each year. The purpose for <br />this request is to help offset LA WMA's financial difficulty due to approximately $146,000 in legal and <br />engineering expenses to be incurred related to requirements of the Kansas v. Colorado case. The . <br />CWCB authorized a deferment ofthe year 2002 payment to LA WMA for the same reasons. LA WMA <br />is current in all oftheir other loan contract payments and is requesting the Board's general approval of a <br />deferral now, with anticipation of coming to the Board at a later time for official approval when a final <br />cost accounting of their expenses is complete. This request falls within the Board's guidelines <br />established in Financial Policy #10 regarding deferm,ent requests, and we are prepared to follow up with <br />an agenda item at a later Board meeting. <br /> <br />Arkansas Valley Water Preservation Project Autltority Board: On May 24 Otero, Bent and Prowers <br />counties announced they have joined Pueblo and Crowley counties in siguing an agreement designed to <br />provide a structure to playa role in "conservation of water resources in the Lower Arkansas Valley". <br />The group was born out of concern about threats that lead a fight to keep Fort Lyon Canal water from <br />being would be sold outside the Arkansas River V alley.. The Southeastern Water Conservancy District <br />also is participating in the group. The combined entities are calling themselves the Arkansas Valley <br />Water Preservation Project Authority Board. . According to members, aside from maintaining eligibility <br />for state and federal funding, a plan is needed to assure that existing water resources remain in the <br />valley. This group is an outgrowth of activities that Leroy Mauch described to the Board at the January <br />2002 Agricultural Water Policy Workshop. The agreement proposes: <br /> <br />- To study water resources in the Arkansas Valley River Basin. <br /> <br />- To determine how to utilize those resources for the benefit of the citizens of the area. <br /> <br />- To apply for, accept and administer grants, gifts, loans and funding. <br /> <br />The agreement will enable the group to has accept received a $45,000 Great Outdoors Colorado grant, t. <br />be matched with $3,000 from each county and another $60,0000 from the southeastern district. . The <br />group has hired a contractor, Leo Eisel from Brown and Caldwell, to prepare a water-preservation <br />12 <br /> <br />