BOARD01505

• Board Meeting Date: 11/15/2005
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

STATE OF COLORADO

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Colorado Water Conservation Board

Deoartment of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street. Room 721
Denver, Colorado lI02In
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
www.cwcb.state.CO.UI

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Bill Owena
Governor

MEMORANDUM

Russell George
Executive DIrector

TO:

UMETCO File

Rod Kubarich
CWCB ou.ctor

FROM:

Bahman Hatami

Dan McAuIlffe
Deputy Director

DATE:

November 4, 2005

SUBJECT:

Summary ofUMETCO Meeting in Nucla on October 4, 2005

Attendees:
CWCB:
CWCB Board:
Leonard Rice, Inc.:
DWR:
Uravan Water Trust:

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Town ofNucla:
Montrose County:
Colorado Cooperative
Ditch Company (CC Ditch):

Dan Merriman, Bahman Hatami, Anne Janicki
Don Schwindt
Ed Armbruster
Wayne Schieldt, Mark Ragsdale, Aaron Todd
Milton Derrick (Trustee, Umetco); Leo Large (Trustee, State of
Colorado); Greg Hoskin, counsel for the Trust
Mary Helen deKoevend
Allan Belt, Commissioner

Dean Nasland, George Glazier, Eddie Riley, Lowell Watson, Zene
Weimer, Mote Naslland

AlZenda
o Introduction
o Summary of investigations
o Historical water rights uses & estimate of historic diversion and consumptive use
amounts
o Open Discussion
o Discussion of options for future uses of the water rights
o Instream flow use scenarios
o Potential collaborative efforts to maximize benefits from the water rights
o What to do next

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SummarY
o Dan Merriman presented brief opening remarks and asked the attendees to introduce themselves

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