BOARD01505

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

water rights after they are transferred to the CWCB. Wayne Schieldt suggested that if the
CWCB seeks to change the power company water right, it may be best to include the
consumptive Johnson Ditch water rights at the same time.
o Commissioner Alan Belt suggested that the options set out in the Leonard Rice
Engineers' study might be viewed 118 templates for use in discussions, and that final
options could be a combination of the options presented. CWCB Member Don Schwindt
asked the attendees to think about local water needs the CWCB could consider. asking
"What is best for the citizens?" and that the CWCB members seek community input.
o Ed Armbruster said that if the water rights are not put to beneficial use, their
values/amount could diminish over time. Dan Merriman asked how the water rights
could be used to benefit the communities. Possibilities for power generation were
discussed and led to a suggestion that the CWCB's non-consumptive water rights could
be used to produce power for the "Uravan Park" (the baseball field near the mouth of
Tabeguache Creek), and this led to further discussion of possibly using Trust water rights
from the Tabeguache wells to irrigate the baseball field. Milton Derrick said he would
check with Umetco to see if the water could be made available for such purposes. Dan
Merriman agreed that such use would also help prevent a diminishment of the value the
Tabeguache water well rights.
o Greg Hoskin suggested a scenario whereby, under an "Interruptible Agreement", the
Trust would make the Taheguache water available for irrigation at the baseball field, with
Umetco'sstatement of agreement that it wouldn't need the Tabeguache water rights all of
the time, but would have the priority right to use the water ifnecessary,from time to
time, for remedial work.
o At 4 PM, Dan Merriman suggested adjouming the meeting and said another meeting
would be planned, possibly in February of 2006, to schedule work with the Bureau of
Land Management and/or Colorado Division of Wildlife to gather biologic information
on the river from Horsefly Creek to Uravan to assess instream flow needs on the San
Miguel River. The CWCB staffwlI8 encouraged by the potential for community support
for the appropriation of new instream flow water rights in lieu of changing the acquired
water rights to instream flow use.
o Milton Derrick reiterated that he would speak with Umetco's management to determine if
water from the Tabeguache wells might be available to irrigate the baseball field
upstream from Uravan.

o The meeting adjourned shortly after 4 pm.

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