BOARD00860

• Board Meeting Date: 3/29/1999
• Description: Platte River Basin Issues - Metro Water Supply Investigation - MWSI Next Steps
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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DENVER WATER

Colorado River Water Conservation District/Denver Board of Water Commissioners
Joint Resolution

WHEREAS, the Colorado River Water Conservation District and the Denver Board of Water
Commissioners, collectively referred to as "the Boards," met on October 7, 1998, to discuss common
issues and to explore possible solutions for those issues;

WHEREAS, one of the primary issues for the Boards is to assure that any Southern Cooperative Action
Proposal by the Douglas County Water Resource Authority considers a broad range of options in a
collaborative process with the goal of optimizing tlle use of in-basin resources in order to minimize the
importation of water from the Western Slope;

WHEREAS, the Douglas County Water Resource Authority has adopted Resolution No, R-998-02, which
proposes a collaborative study ("the Study");

WHEREAS, the Boards believe that the first task for the Study should be collaborative development of a
comprehensive work scope for the Study that includes objective analysis of water supply, conservation,
and reuse options including those that will optimize the use and distribution of Denver Basin groundwater
resources and those that postpone or minimize the importation of water from the Western Slope;

WHEREAS, the Boards believe that the scope of work for the Study should include mitigation options for
any Western Slope impacts caused by any identified water supply approaches that use Western Slope
water:

WHEREA.S, the Boards have no interest in including in the Studv new large transmountain diversion
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projects:

WHEREAS, the Douglas County Water Resource Authority's Resolution supportS the goal, process, and
intent described above for the development of the scope of work for the Study;

NOW THEREFORE, the Boards resolve: (I) to have their staffs work with the Douglas County Water
Resource Authority and others to develop collaboratively a comprehensive scope of work for the Study
that embraces the above goals and, assuming an acceptable study scope is designed, to commit staff
resources to the completion of the Study; and (2) that the Boards' commitments and actions pursuant
hereto shall not modify or interpret the Boards' rights and obligations concerning the use ofCoJorado
River basin water or South Platte River basin water nor limit the Boards' actions in regard to those rights
and obligations, and shall not evidence the approval of any specific project or means of providing future
water supplies on the Colorado Front Range.

IN ~~7T:VESS HEREOF. the undersigned Boards have caused this instrument to be executed as of the
] 7'h day of :--Iovember 1998.

DENVER BOARD OF
W,-'" TER COMMISSIONERS

COLORADO RIVER
:ATE:dONSER V A TlON DISTRICT

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Color;do ,Riv~r Wfuer 'Conservation District

By: /.
Joe: hoemaker, President
De'nver Board of ,If ater Commissioners