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<br />, -,,:) <br /> <br />Water Availability Task Force to access water supply conditions and drought potential statewide <br />has been scheduled for Mar. 22 in Denver. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The weekly map of <br />drought in the U. S. as of Mar. <br />7 published by the National <br />Drought Mitigation Center <br />shows Colorado not in <br />drought, but the extreme <br />southeast corner of the state is <br />shown as "abnormally dry." <br />Northern Arizona and New <br />Mexico, and western Kansas <br />and Nebraska are also shown <br />as abnormally dry. <br /> <br />SURFACE WATER SUPPLY INDEX <br />MARCH 1, 2000 <br /> <br />Colorado Drought <br />Planning: We have completed <br />our survey of municipal water <br />providers that provide 2,000 <br />acre-feet or more of treated <br />water to determine the extent of drought planning in Colorado. The results confirmed that only a <br />few Colorado communities have done any serieJUs risk based drought assessment or drought <br />mitigation planning. . <br /> <br />National Drought Policy Commission (NDPC): On Mar. 8 the NOPC released a <br />revised draft of its report "Preparing for Drought in the New Millennium." The document is <br />available at http://www.[sa.usda.gov/drought/. Comments received by Mar. 31 will be <br />considered in preparing the final report. The Commission is particularly interested in hearing <br />from the general public on their personal experiences with drought and the effects drought has <br />had on the enviromnent. <br /> <br /> <br />Near Normal <br /> <br />Moderate Drought <br /> <br />Severe Drought , <br /> <br />Governor's Conference of Floods and Droughts: The DNR, using CWCB funds, has <br />hired a contractor to compile the proceedings of the Governor's Flood and Drought Conference <br />on a compact disc. The CD should be available free to conference attendees by May. <br /> <br />Colorado Dam Site Inventory: We are synthesizing information and eliminating <br />duplicate sites to give the best possible information about existing and potential reservoir sites to <br />localities. The dam site database has been converted to a more relational database in Microsoft <br />Access to make entering, finding, reporting information easier. This database may be updated <br />again after the new water rights tabulation comes out in July 2000. The objective is to produce a <br />series of county maps showing the aerial extent of potential new reservoir sites or reservoir <br />enlargements for use by county planning commissions in making land use decisions. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />8 <br />