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<br />SWSI Water Management Objectives and Related Basin Roundtable Comments <br />DRAFT 11/11/03 <br /> <br />',.,,\,'.,.) <br />~~~":~~1 <br />.~-&-~. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />:::\-, :,.': :\~ <br />.,...,:':').... <br /> <br />Original Objective (with Draft Revisions to Obiectives Primary Comments from Basin Roundtable Meetin 1 on Oriainal Obiectives <br /> YampaIWhitel San JuanlDoloresl <br />Preliminarv BRT edits) Objectives Common Themes Arkansas Gunnison Colorado South Platte North Platte Green San Miguel Rio Grande <br />1. Reliably Meet 1. Sustainably Meet . Maintain water rights . Ag needs water . Multiple demands . Reliably meet West . Reliability has many . Use in-basin water for . Preserve the basin's . Meet basic M&I needs . Restore surface flows <br />Demands M&I and . Meet ag demands when availability at specific should be considered Slope demands possible definitions in-basin needs ability to use water during worst drought to support historic <br /> Agricultural and where needed times for crops in SWSI - M&I, ag, before any others . Minimum M&I . Manage forests to for growth in all . Have water in the ranching and farming <br /> Demands . Meet M&I demands . Lack of reliable M&I recreational, . Meet unforeseeable demand is indoor use maximize water demand types amounts and locations . Reduce demand to <br /> during drought supply could impact environmental demands (include . Conservation reliability and supply . Do not use water to needed improve reliability- <br /> population & tax base . Water shortages exist safety factor in preferred over . Currently, enough raw limit growth . Sustain healthy currently have an <br /> in upper part of basin demand) watering restrictions water for in-basin . Satisfy demands of ecosystem unreliable supply <br /> and tributaries . Use efficiency to . Ag needs water demands water short areas . Follow Doctrine of . Need ability to finish <br /> more reliably meet availability at specific . North Platte Decree . Follow Doctrine of Prior Appropriations crop once planted <br /> demands times for crops affects water use Prior Appropriations . Adequate supply to . Goal to have a water <br /> . Each user will have . Interstate compacts keep agriculture table 20 feet higher <br /> unique definition of threaten supply solvent than today and then <br /> reliability . M&I is a minor sustain that level <br /> demand <br />2. Maximize Efficient 2. Optimize In-basin . Minimize non-beneficial . General support for . Many diverse uses of . Look at efficiency on . Support for short- . Recognize secondary . Caution on efficient . Realize that ag return . Higher water table <br />Use of Existing Supply Water Supplies consumption this objective water in the basin basin-wide basis tenn leases from ag benefits from ag use water use for ag flows supply others increased efficiency <br /> . Maximize successive . Continue to promote . Some concern over . Efficiency of use may to M&I . In over appropriated . Consider unintended and look at long-tenn . Environment suffers <br /> uses of nontributary conservation best increasing efficient not increase . Need clarification - streams, ag consequences of impacts (e.g., wildlife) from efficient <br /> groundwater and other management practices use on an individual availability applicable to all raw "inefficiency" is efficiency on . Existing supply agriculture <br /> legally reusable water user basis water or current someone else's downstream water includes all supply not . Include urban <br /> . Maximize development diversions decreed water uses in Colorado owed downstream for efficiency <br /> of new in-basin supplies . Ag use is already Compact and . Conveyance losses <br /> efficient Endanaered Species recharae the aquifer <br />3. Enhance Use of Merged with . Objective needs . Unclear which assets . Could optimize . General agreement . Optimize operations . Not applicable to the . Need to clarify . Cooperative uses of . Consolidate <br />Existing System Assets Operational Flexibility clarification and is this refers to operations of existing with objective of existing facilities North Platte Basin objective and assets (e.g., pipelines) headgates & remove <br /> [11 redundant with facilities subobjectives . Ag to M&I sales could river obstructions <br /> Operational Flexibility . Preserve the ability fund improvements . Use vacant reservoir <br /> to use water for aa space <br />4. Maximize Merged with Comply . Objective is unclear and . Comply with all laws . Need to comply with . Expand purpose of . Objective needs . Compliance with . No significant . Identify issues for . Promote <br />Implementability with All Applicable redundant with Comply . Objective needs "law of the river" and ability to use clarification North Platte Decree discussion implementation collaboration, not <br /> Laws and Regulations with All Applicable Laws clarification existing systems and National . Persistence of litigation <br /> [21 and Regulations . Relax institutional Environmental Policy support/opposition <br /> constraints Act (NEPA) affects implementation <br />5. Support Recreational 3. Enhance . Provide adequate water . Need predictable, . Consider recreation . Provide flow for . Different rec users . Control trespassing . Maintain ecological . Change "needs" to . Cooperative multiple <br />Needs Recreational for recreation when and dependable flows at water needs within corridor enjoyment! have conflicting . Protect private connection between "options" use of water to <br /> Opportunities where needed the right time of year to resource limitations experience needs property rights river corridors and . Resolve conflicting rec enhance recreation <br /> support rafting . Consider who pays . Provide water for . Acknowledge . Instream flows are their floodplain; allow needs and wildlife <br /> for recreational "use" summer and winter intangible values of controversial, for periodic flood . Ag reservoir releases . Concern with draft <br /> (e.g., snowmaking) recreation particularly after the flows can support rec subobjectives <br /> recreation . Address seasonal drought . Provide instream . Allocate portion of (instream flow, <br /> needs flows for costs to rec users reservoir levels & <br /> . Doctrine of Prior environmental uses operation, intangible <br /> Appropriations and recognize value of rec) <br /> qoverns use secondary benefits <br />6. Provide for 4. Provide for . Leave adequate water . Provide for water . Consider who pays . Preserve/improve . Provide for range of . Continue to support . Difficult to assess . Consider all native . Protect and restore <br />Environmental Environmental for environment when quality protection/ for environmental water quality (e.g., environmental environmental cost benefits of species (not just riparian habitat <br />Pre1ee4ieR Needs and Enhancement and where needed enhancement "use" salinity) demands (e.g., protection environmental endangered) . Minimize adverse <br />Enhancement . Avoid/mitigate . Protect water quality . Support recovery wetlands, birds, . Coal-bed methane enhancements and . Prevent damaging environmental <br /> environmental impacts of in headwaters programs wildlife, stream and managed forests open space water quality changes impacts of new <br /> new projects . Minimize and mitigate . Protect native aquatic enhancement) could affect water . Need creative . Ag provides secondary projects <br /> . Protect and improve environmental species and ESA . Environmental quality funding opportunities benefits for . Maintain and protect <br /> water quality consequences . Enhance protection and . Water quality for water environment water quality <br /> environment, not just enhancement classifications can management . Acknowledge . Reduce sediment <br /> protect it . Protect and improve have unintended . All project correlation between loading <br /> water quality consequences to ag beneficiaries should water quantity and <br /> pay for water water quality <br /> projects, including <br /> the qeneral public <br /> <br />A <br /> <br />DRAFT <br /> <br />L:\80ardmem\November 2003\SWS116 Objectives 11-11-03.doc 11/13/2003 <br />