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<br />Statewide Issues <br /> <br />. Education Initiative: We have been working with Tom Cech, the chairman of the <br />Colorado Water Congress Education Committee to prepare a fact sheet and scope of work to <br />implement the Water Education Initiative you supported last spring. A copy ofthis material will <br />be available at your meeting and posted on our Internet site, <br /> <br />WSWC Conservation Workshop: Bill Stanton represented the CWCB at a workshop <br />held July 12-14 at Casper, Wyoming entitled "What's new in the West, Water Conservation and <br />The Use of Conserved Waters." The workshop was sponsored by the Wyoming State Engineer's <br />Office, the Western States Water Council, Reclamation, and the Natural Resources Conservation <br />Service. Presentations were made by each of the 10 western state representatives in attendance <br />about their respective state water conservation programs and any innovations in policy to make <br />more efficient use of saved water. The last time advances in water conservation were shared <br />directly between the western states was in 1995 in San Diego, The group agreed to meet again in <br />two years. <br /> <br />Local Water Basin Planning & Fact Sheets: The first two local basin meetings have <br />been scheduled. The first meeting will take place in Pueblo in conjunction with a Southeast <br />Water Conservancy District Storage Needs Assessment meeting on Aug 3. The second meeting <br />will take place on Aug. 16 in Montrose. I have hired an intern from CSU to help me coordinate <br />meeting activities. Her name is "Cat" Shrier. I have also given the proposed changes and <br />corrections to fact sheets I have received to our consultant to begin the process of updating the <br />eight basin fact sheets that have been produced. <br /> <br />Gaging Meeting with USGS: We attended a USGSlDivision of Water Resources <br />meeting on May 16 to discuss statewide gaging/satellite monitoring issues and the coordination <br />of other gage stakeholders. We decided to schedule a one-day symposium on gaging, with a <br />focus on education and issue identification. The USGS, DWR and CWCB will coordinate the <br />symposium that may take place this fall, perhaps in mid-October, Other Items that were <br />discussed included the need for emergency contacts, data sharing coordination, data collection <br />trends, and funding issues. <br /> <br />Hatchery Dedication: On June 6 Governor Owens dedicated the new native aquatic <br />species hatchery in Alamosa. The $6-million hatchery will be dedicated to raising threatened and <br />endangered fish, amphibian and mollusks species, Construction began last fall on a 760-acre site, <br />formerly known as the Chiles Farms. Once the hatchery opens, biologists begin the task of <br />locating and capturing populations of fish on the federal and state endangered, threatened and <br />sensitive lists, They will then attempt to recreate habitat conditions in the facility to encourage <br />reproduction of the species. The facility is the first of its kind in the U,S. <br /> <br />Water Quality Consultations: On June 26, Hal Simpson and I sent a letter to the Water <br />Quality Control Commission regarding the Proposed Revisions to the Surface Water Basic <br />Standards and Methodologies, A hearing was scheduled to debate the proposal on July 10, A <br />copy of our letter is attached, <br /> <br />We also met with the CDPHE Executive Director and her staff on July 7 to discuss other <br />water quality issues. Because we have many new members, we also discussed the possibility and <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />3 <br />