BOARD01008

• Board Meeting Date: 1/27/2004
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

"U.S. Department of Interior's Water 2025 Initiative." We have also attached a copy of the
Secretary's remarks delivered to the convention by Bennen Raley.

Glen Canyon Adapthe ~1anageml'nt Program: The GCAMP has been using a model to
estimate the size of the Humpback Chub population in the Colorado River and the Grand
Canyon. This model is different than the 3-pass mark recapture process used in the Upper
Colorado RIP and identified in the Reco\.ery Goals for determining population size. The
GCA....\IP asked a panel of recognized fishery experts which method was the better and the panel
decided that either method is acceptable. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now must decide if
they will accept either approach for purposes of population estimates under the recovery goals.
If they will not. the GCAMP does not seem inclined to change and could be faced with making
multiple population estimates for the Canyon chub population to the detriment of the fish and the
budgets.

We continue to press Interior for a endangered fish recovery program in the Grand Canyon and
tributary areas bctv.cen Glen Canyon Dam and the upper end of Lake ~1cad. While Interior's
representative appear receptive to the idea, nothing seems to be happening in this regard. We
have discussed the idea with the Lower Basin States as well, but there is no clear consensus for
the effort.

Finally, we have been going through the development ofthl' 2005 budget for the GCAMP and
we continue to have major disagreement within the GCAr...t? as to the necessity of looking al
sediment augmentation for the Canyon. We have continually opposed such efforts. but the
GeM1P, at least at the T\\'G level seems more welling to investigate the feasibility of such than
ever before.

Creen :\lountain Re$er\'oir-HUP "'rap-up ~Ieeling: The wrap-up meeting for operations of
the HUP pool pursuant to the Orchard Mesa Check case settlement will be held on Jan. 28 at the
River District Offices in Glcnwood Springs.

Aspinall Unit Operations .'Iecting: The next meeting is scheduled for Jan. 22 at the ~10ntrose
Civic Center Pavilion in ;'-,10nlrose. Colorado has been asked to make a briefpresenlation on the
Boards recent instream !low filing on the Gunnison Ri\'er and to update the group on activities
associated with federal reserved water settlement for the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National
Park.

USBR Consumpli..-e Uscs and Losses Report:
re,.iew draft of the
"Colorado River System
Consumptive Uses and
Losses Repon, 1996-
2000" and CWCB staff
has completed its review
and pro\.ided comments
back to Reclamation.
While we are still
concerned with shonage
calculations in the report.
we did not identify any
signiticant problems. The
preliminary average
consumpti\-e use for the
Stale of Colorado during
this lime period is

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The Bureau of Reclamation has released a

DecerriJer 1 Forecast of 2003 Year-End Colorado
River
Water Use by the California Agricultural Agencies
I 3.850 MAF

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