BOARD02475

• Board Meeting Date: 3/21/2002
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

It appears to be the general consensus of the group that it is important that we obtain representative water
rights data from enough entities to adequately characterize:the range of users (i.e. irrigation, M&I,
augmentation, recreation, instream flows, fish and wildlife), but it may not be necessary for each potential
user to supply water rights data .

Most entities may also provide BC with data on their expected demand/release schedules for stored water in
Chatfield Reservoir.

The CWCB Flood staff and BC hope to have an infonnational presentation by our May meeting. The next
Storage Use Patterns meeting is scheduled for April 4 at Denver Water.

Cherry Creek PMP Study: Attached to the Director's report is a copy ofa Mar. 7 letter from the National
Weather Service (NWS) agreeing to attend the final project meeting and to review reports from the Cherry
Creek Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) Study generated by Applied Weather Associates and the
CWCB. This is good news following months of repeated invitations to the NWS to participate on the CWCB
Study Team.

The NWS agreed to participate because of the "relevahce to our program and the pote11tial to advance the
science in this arena." The CWCB and NWS will sign a MOU between agencies and we will send them
Interim Report #1 and relevant background data. A Second interim report is due in mid April, and a Draft
Final Report is due June 1. The NWS has also agreed to attend the May 7 meeting,

After months of controversy, local, state and federal experts and other interested parties in the PMP arena are
working together to come up with a PMP recommendation that the State of CoJorado. The Corps could
potentially use the recommendation to proceed with the Probably Maximurn Flood (PMF) Study.

We also met with Mac Zimmerman, a new aide to U.S. rep. Tom Tancredo, on Feb. 19 to brief him on the
progress of the St~dy. Mr. Zimmerman repla.ced Matt Knoeddler who i~ now on Governor Ow~ns' staff. We_
plan to host Mr. Zimmerman at a future meetmg and tour of the reservOir. Rep. Tancredo and his staff have ,.,
been very attentive and supportive during the course ofthd Cherry Creek study.

Golden Case: The State filed its opening brief on February 7, 2002. In addition, a significant number of
water users filed amici briefs in support ofthe State's position that the water court decision should be
reversed. Golden's brief was due on March 7,2002, but they requested a 30-day extension of time. That
request for an extension of time has not yet been approved, but the Supreme Court will likely approve that
request.

South Metro Study Update: Modeling work continues 01). the Denver Basin for the South Metro Water
Supply Study, now under the project management of Pat },}rulhern, since the resignation of Peter Binney.
Hydrosphere Resource Consultants is performing modeling work on a regional basis, while HRS Water
Consultants is employing regional model head results in individual well analyses throughout the study area.

Kansas v Nebraska and Colorado (Repnblican River): Colorado has stipulated with both Nebraska and
Kansas that prior to 1994, Colorado has not caused any damages under the compact. A three and one-half
month stay in trial preparation was granted in December t<;J allow an opportunity for settlement discussions.

Settlement discussions among the three states and the fedciral government began in January and are occurring
every other week for two-days through the end of March. iHowever, because the major dispute is between
Kansas and Nebraska, Colorado does not have that much influence on the success of these discussions. If the
discussions fail, trail will begin July 1, 2003. We continue to wait for the USGS study on groundwater in the
Republican Basin, which is about a year behind schedule. Hopefully, we will see results with in the next two
months.

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