BOARD00582

• Board Meeting Date: 5/19/2003
• Description: WSP Section - Ruedi Reservoir - Proposed Contract to Deliver 10,825 AF Annually to Endangered Fish in the 15-Mile Reach Through 2012
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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BASALT WATER CONSERVANCY DISTlUCT COtoRADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT .
POST OFFICE DRAWER 974 201 CENTENNIAL STREET, suITE 200
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, CO 81602 POST OFFICE Box 1120
PHONE: [phone] GLENWOOD SPRINGS, CO '81602
FAX: [phone] PHONE: [phone]
WWW.BWCD.ORG FAX: [phone]
WWW.CRWCD.ORG

May 9, 2003

Via Facsimile: (970) 66:3..3212
Brian Person, Area Manager
Bureau of Reclamation
Eastern Colorado Area Office
11056 West County RD 18E
Loveland, CO 80537-9711

Via Facsimile: [phone]
Randy Seaho1r.n
Colorado Water Conservation Board
1313 Sherman St., Rm. 721
Denver, CO 80203

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RE: PROPOSED AGREEMENT FOR RUED! RESERVOIR DEIJVERIES THROUGH
THE YEAR 2012

Dear Brian and Randy:

We appreciate Reclamation providing the additional analysis of potential shortages
in deliveries from Rued! Reservoir regulatory' capacity during the term of the 2012
Agreement. For our records, we would appreciate receiving a full copy of the document
because there were some omissions in the faxed version.

Dave Merritt of the Colorado River Districtl 5 staff and Scott Fifer, the Basalt District's
engineering consultant, evaluated the mode1lng analysis and reported to the Basalt District' 5
Board at their May 6 meeting. We had a fairly detailed discussion with the District directors.

As we related to Randy, we concluded that Reclamation's analysis indicates that there
will be little risk of a shortage declaration during the term of the Agreement thxough 2012.
For that reason, and because our organizations both support the success of the Colorado
River Recovery Program, we will not press our objections regarding the proposed shortage .
provision. Nevertheless, ~e need to state that, for the reasons that we have arlirulated