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<br />... <br /> <br />.... 'i. <br /> <br />Gilbert, Hanna <br /> <br />.-.-. From: <br />~lent: <br />-to: <br />Cc: <br />Subject: <br /> <br />Chuck Wanner [cwanner@frontier.net] <br />Tuesday, April 13, 2004 5:31 PM <br />SWSI (Statewide Water Supply Initiat;ve) <br />Rick Brown <br />Re: -SWSI Do'ores/San Juan Basin Update.. March 2003 <br /> <br />1) I have no further feedback at this time, except to ask if the overlapping dam sites and rights are going to be <br />eliminated along with the dams that are part of already nnderway projects such as McPhee and Animas La <br />Plata? <br /> <br />2) May 18, from 2 PM to 8 PM is fine for the next meeting. <br /> <br />In a different vein the alternatives analysis seems to be becoming a vote that uses the ranking information <br />differently than described at the last meeting. Frankly I am still a bit wary of this and how it will end up being <br />used. Perhaps it will be more understandable at the next meeting. <br /> <br />Second, I am assuming that the list of segments for instream flows which originated with the Colorado Water <br />Trust, the Nature Conservancy and the 5 Year Plan for the CWCB are part of our basins record and do not <br />need to be submitted in writing. If this is a wrong assumption I have copies to submit. <br /> <br />'Third, we seem to have dropped consideration of instream flows as a part of the discussion. What will be done <br />as far as passing the recommended segments along to the CWCB? Will there be ranked recommendations or <br />simply a list? In light of the fact that we have not really been able to look at the increased need for <br />.\Vat~r ~ streams for ~ecreational and environm~tal purposes ov~r the next 30 years as individual segments in a <br />~aliStic manner, w1l1 there be some sort of policy recommendation as a result of the process that attempts to <br />identify instream needs. In the San Juan/ Dolores we have identified an 80% increase in population by 2030. <br />We know that the increased population will be here mostly because of the recreational and aesthetic <br />opportunities in the basin. Agriculture will not grow very much because of land values and the return on <br />investment. Yet we are not forecasting an increase in demand for instream uses. Where does this lead us? The <br />demographics have changed and are continuing to_change. If we are to meet the needs of the citizens that <br />make up this new populace we need to make some effort to asess this dimension of use. Some of these <br />comments were made at the last roundtable, but my frustration with this aspect of our analysis is great <br />enough that a second comment seemed in order. <br /> <br />Thanks, we all knew this would not be easy. <br />Chuck Wanner <br /> <br />nSWSI (Statewide Water Supply Initiative)" wrote: <br /> <br />> Dolores/San Juan Basin Ronndtable Participants, <br />> <br />> Thank you for your ongoing participation in and contnbutions to the <br />> Colorado Water Conservation Board's Statewide Water Supply Initiative <br />> (SWSI). This email provides an update of current activities related <br />~, to SWSI. <br /> <br />> We truly appreciate your input to date and are asking for your <br />> continued assistance. Please continue to address all correspondence to <br />1 <br />