BOARD01982

• Board Meeting Date: 7/30/1976
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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As part of these procedures, a multi-objective planning team was formed
in January of 1975. This is comprised of representatives of various
federal, state and local agencies and private citizens. At present,
the team consists of 59 persons of all disciplines and interests which
are divided into seven different sub-teams, each with special interests
such as power, recreatiDn, agriculture, etc. The team has had seven
full team meetings and two field trips, plus numerDus sub-team meetings,
and they have collected base line data, attempted to establish the needs
of the area that are related to water resources, and to formulate alter-
natives to meet those needs.

Also, as part of the public involvement process under multi-objective
planning, a slide presentation has been given to numerous civic groups
and clubs. An introductory public meeting was held in August of 1975.
From the response sheets that have been returned from these meetings,
the people have rated the following six proposed uses of water, with the
most important being first:

1. Power production through a small conventional hydro-electric plant
at the dam and peaking power through a pumped storage facility.

2. Recreation activities, especially flat water uses such as fishing,
water skiing, and boating.

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3. Agriculture. Although agriculture has been rated very high, it
appears as though no alternatives exist to irrigate any new lands,
but the possibility exists that through exchanges, existing agri-
cultural lands could be improved.

4. Municipal and industrial water by providing storage fDr Grand
Junction and the surrounding area.

5. Fish and wildlife habitat could be improved or degraded, depending
upon type of development and the particular species of wildlife
involved. Concern has been voiced for preserving endemic fish,
blue heron, and small SDng bird habitats, along with interest in
improving habitat for game fish and waterfowl, such as geese.

6. Water quality could be improved by settling out sediment and also
by the mixing action in a reservoir. This wDu1d i~rove the quality
of the water downstream in late summerl fall and winter when the
natural river flows are lowest and sa1~ne concentratiDns greatest.

The Dominguez Reservoir project is located in Delta and Mesa counties
along the Gunnison River between the cities of Delta and Grand Junction.
U.S. Highway 50 is east of and apprDximate1y parallel to the Gunnison
River, and connects those two cities. A line of the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad is located in the canyon created by the Gunnison River and
follows along the eastern bank of the river. The multi-objective planning
team has recently selected four alternatives out of approximately fifteen
to twenty others. These alternatives will be presented to the public at
meetings-in Delta and Grand JunctiDn near the 1st of September which will
allow the public to exppess its feelings on the alternatives.

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