BOARD02588

• Board Meeting Date: 5/24/1999
• Description: Directors' Reports
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Flo,^, Protection (cont)

WETPAC

The trout fisheries below McPhee Reservoir on the
Dolores River are estimated to require 36,500 af annually.
The Dolores Project releases an average of 25,400 af.
annually. BOR has requested an increase of storage releases
to 29;300 af, so that only 7,200 af of additional water is
needed for fish.and wildlife purposes, The WETPAC project
is looking for opportunities to expand the current
. development of water associated with the Dolores Project, in
part to sustain the downstream flows for the fishery.

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OTHER ISSUES

Conservation
To be added

Dought Protection
To be added.

Reuse
To be added
Recreation
To be added
Wildlife
To be added
Indian Water Rights
To be added
San Juan Recovery Program
To be added
Limitations to Deve/opment/Water Use
To be added

Dolores River at Dolores, Colorado

The CWCB would appreciate your views about how it should implement its mission. Please send them to:

Peter Evans
CWCB Director
1313 Sherman Street
Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80303

Please visit the CWCB Website at www.dnr.state.co.us/cwcb.

The Colorado WaterC;onservation Board (CWCB) was created in 1937. The CWCB is responsible for preventingfloods and helping
protec~ conserve, and develop water throughout the state. The CWCB consists of a fifteen member board comprised of representatives
from each major water basin, the City of Denver. the Division of Natural Resources, the Attorney General, the Department of Agriculture,
and the Division of Wildlife.