BOARD01974

• Board Meeting Date: 11/19/2003
• Description: OWC Section - Drought and Water Supply Assessment
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

STATE OF COLORADO

Colorado Water Conservation Board

Department of Natura! Resources
1313 Shennan Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX, [phone]
www.cwcb.state.co.us

MEMORANDUM

Bill Owens
GovetTlor

TO:
FROM:
DATE:
RE:

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members
Brad Lundahl
November 12, 2003
Agenda Item # 17 - Drought & Water Supply Assessment

Greg E. Walcher
Executive Director

Rod Kuharich
CWCB Director

Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

Update and Request for Board Action on the Droul!ht & Water Supplv Assessment

In September, you were provided with a Draft Copy of the Drought & Water Supply Assessment Report for
review and comment. You gave us the following instructions to allow for the approval of the Draft Report
and its subsequent production before the end of the calendar year.

. Send out copies of the Final Draft Report to the selected Extemal Technical Review Team (see list
attached), and coordinate their review and comments, providing summaries of their comments to the
Board.
. Prepare the recommendations section of the report for Board review and approval at the November
2003 meeting.

In addition, we contacted each of you in an effort to solicit comments on the Draft Report and provide you
with a briefl11g on the recommendations being developed.

Current Activities
A Final Draft of the Report was prepared based on comments that you provided to us at the September Board
Meeting. The External Technical Review Team has been reviewing the Final Draft of the document over the
past six weeks. Comments from this group will be obtained over the two weeks prior to the Board meeting
and will be summarized for the Board to review once they have been collected.

A copy of Chapter 17 of the Drought & Water Supply Assessment Report entitled "Project Findings,
Recommendations and Initial Implementation Steps" is attached for your review and comment. This chapter
presents the:

. Major findings of the report, which includes identifying the major objective of future state water
policy;
. Maj or recommendations of the report, which includes identifying the key "areas of practice" that the
CWCB must perform to implement any changes to state water policy; and,
. Activities and tasks that should be performed to initiate implementation of the identified changes.

Flood Protection. Water Project Planning and Financing. Stream and Lake Protection
Water Supply Protection. Conservation Planning