BOARD01318

• Board Meeting Date: 9/13/2005
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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with Mayor Hickenlooper's Sustainable Development Initiative and Denver Water to offer a series of .
presentations on the challenges and potential solutions to water issues so vital to us in Colorado. The experts say
that what we do in the next five years impacts the next 50. So what should be done? Hear some of the best
current thinking and innovative approaches to managing this precious resource and learn about models for
regional cooperation. Each presentation will feature a metro-area water expert - including Justice Greg Hobbs,
Steven Boand, and Peter Binney - paired with a water expert from another region in the West.

The first presentation was held Tuesday, August 23 on Water Supply Challenges & Solutions Steve Boand
(Douglas County Commissioner) and Ed Means (Water Consultant/formerly of the California Metro Water
District) All presentations are being held at the Phipps !MAX Theater in Denver/

The final date will be Mayor Hickenlooper leading a roundtable discussion about the issues raised by the
speakers. A reception will be held with each presentation. See www.dmns.orgorca1l303.322.7009 for more
details. This program is sponsored by Wright Water Engineers.

Tamarisk 2005 Symposium: Biennially the Tamarisk Coalition and the Colorado State University
(CSU) Cooperative Extension co-host the Tamarisk Symposium in Grand Junction, Colorado. The
symposium scheduled for October l2-14th is the preeminent conference on the tamarisk problem that
focuses on issues related to tamarisk and riparian health throughout western North America. The
symposium will bring together over 300 people from throughout the West that include key researchers,
on-the-ground program managers, environmental interests, and federal/statellocal agencies to better
understand the nature of the tamarisk problem and to develop long-term solutions. To learn more about
the agenda and to register for this year's 2005 Tamarisk Symposium please visit
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Western State College of Colorado 16'. Headwaters Conference: Every fall, Western State College .
hosts a gathering of scholars and writers, poets and journalists, public officials and community activists,
social and natural scientists, and the general inquiring minds from the mountain region for a weekend of
interdisciplinary and cross-cultural interaction on an issue of concern in the Headwaters Region. This
year's Conference will be Held on November 4_5'.. Papers are presented, but every effort is also made to
make the discourse accessible through "Forum Theater" dramatizations, poetry and music, and generally a
full gamut of the varieties of human communication.

Statewide Water Snpply Initiative (SWSI): The SWSI team has established a schedule for the next 9
months of activities. The complete schedule was e-mailed to each Board Member and the participants in
the 4 Technical Roundtables. The first set of meetings are: September 21- Water Efficiency; September
26 - Alternative Agricultural Transfers to Permanent Dry-up; October -12 Recreational and
Environmental needs; and November 9 - Addressing the municipal/industrial gap, agricultural shortages,
and environmental and recreational needs including development of alternatives.

Water for the 21" Century (HB-05-1177) Kicks-offlnterbasin Compact Roundtable (IBCRT)
Meetings: The Department of Natural Resources in conjunction with Colorado Water Conservation
Board held the first IBCR T meeting on August 23 in Rangely. The schedule of meetings is outlined
below.

Eric Hecox has been hired as a 6 month temporary state employee to coordinate the implementation of
HB -05-1177. The goals for the first set of meetings are to: outline the process, identify substantive and
procedural requirements of the legislation, and communications/public involvement. One of the first
orders of business for the initial members of the IBCRT's (municipal, county, conservation and .
conservancy districts) is to select 10 at large members. The meeting was very constructive with many

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