BOARD02469

• Board Meeting Date: 7/18/2005
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

well. The project sponsors have again taken the initiative to secure funding from various
sources including their association for the repair efforts. The repair efforts, which
included the removal and redistribution of cobble material from within and below project
structures and the resetting of some rock used in the structures, have now been
completed. In many respects the project area looks as good if not better than the original
project.

Dolores River Dialogue Update: The Dolores River Dialogue is a process involving
water users, environmental groups, recreational interests, and local, state and federal
agencies. The Dialogue was formed to explore the possibilities of better managing the
water resources in the Dolores River Basin to everyone's benefit. At the last update a
Core Science Group had been formed to look into the river system below McPhee
Reservoir from a fishery; both warm and cold water species, stream channel
geomorphology, and environmental perspective. Much of the field investigations have
been completed and the Dialogue's Technical Team is now attempting to put this
information into a matrix format for presentation to the Dialogue Group as a whole. It is
anticipated that the Dialogue Group as a whole will review these efforts in the late fall of
2005.

If you would like additional information on this project, please contact the Dolores Water
Conservancy District, 60 S. Cactus St., P.O. Box 1150, Cortez, CO 81321: ph. 970-565-
7562; or via e-mail at [e-mail].

Reclamation Continues Contract Negotiations for the Conversion of Water from the
Pine River Project: The second in a series of negotiation meetings was held to discuss
the terms of a contract between the Pine River Irrigation District and Reclamation for the
use of Pine River Project Water from Vallecito Reservoir. The meeting was held on June
8. The contract will establish the terms and conditions for the proposed conversion of
Pine River Project Water from irrigation to other miscellaneous purposes and uses.

June 2005 Update on Navajo: On June 19, in an attempt to aid state police and rescue
officials in their search for a man believed to have been swept down the San Juan River
below Navajo Dam on June 18, Reclamation reduced the releases from Navajo Reservoir
to approximately 1,800 cubic feet per second (cfs) on Sunday, June 19th.

Emergency officials and volunteers were unsuccessful in their search and the search was
planned to will continue on the weekend (June 25-26). Therefore, beginning Wednesday,
June 22nd, releases were ramped down. The schedule called for releases to be decreased
to 1,300 cfs on Wednesday; 800 cfs on Thursday, and 500 cfs on Friday. This provided
lower flows to aid in the search over the weekend and will also concluded the ramp-down
from the spring peak release. Releases have remained at 500 cfs since that date.

Navajo Reservoir Operations Meeting: A public meeting on Navajo Reservoir
operations will be held on August 18 in Farmington, New Mexico. At this meeting,
review of last spring and summer reservoir operations, and plans for this autumn 2005
operations will be discussed. These are open forum discussions on the operation of

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