ColoradoComments03

• Basin: Colorado
• Title: Comments 3
• Date: 8/25/2003
• SWSI - Doc Type: Comments

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CAZIER AND McGOWAN
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OF PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONS

RECEIVED
AUG 2 6 2003

Oolorado Water ConservatJon Boan.1

JOHN D. WALKER

August 25, 2003

62495 u.s. HIGHWAY 40 EAST
BOX 500
GRANBYt COLORADO 80446
TELEPHONE [phone]
FAX (970). 887-9430
JOHN L. BAKE~ P.C.
OF COUNSEL

STANLEY W. CAZIER. P.C.
RODNEYR McGO"~, P.C.

Mr. Greg Hoskin
Hoskin Farina Ardrich & Kampf PC
200 Grand Ave4 Ste 400 '
PO Box 40
Grand Junction, CO 81501

RE: Colorado Water Conservation Board - Statewide Water Supply Initiative

Dear Greg:

This is a follow-up to my earlier correspondence. Since the Colorado River
Basin meetings are going to be in Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction, it is unlikely
that many peopJe from either Summit or Grand County wiU be ab'e to attend. I would
hope that that fact will encourage the appointment of Summit and Grand County
members to the Basin Roundtable.

I am enclosing for your information a recent draft of the Executive Summary of
the Upper Colorado River Study that underlines the critical shortages that this area
faces that could adequately be addressed by storage. Additionally, upstream storage
is best because it can serve the entire basin.

Even at that, the UPCO study doesn't address a huge shortage of flows that are
necessary to protect the environment and water quaHty nor address the millions of
dollars spent by entities in the Upper Cororado River to treat water because of lack of
difution flows.

Other items that point out the critical problem in the Upper Colorado include:

1. Almost every water application involvjng uses or changes in Summjt
County is opposed by the Colorado Water Conservation Board because
of existing shortages. Tributary storage is a solution to these numerous
problems.

2. The Colorado Water Conservation Board has filed a Statement of
Opposition to Mjddle Park's attempt to substitute Wolford Mountain water
for Windy' Gap water. which is one of the onJy ways to get water to other
users.