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Colorado River District's Annual Water Seminar Set for Friday, September Board of Directors Meeting Summary Page 1 July 2017 Every July quarterly Board meeting, the Colorado River District honors Directors who have rotated off the Board. At left, General Manager Eric Kuhn and current Board President Tom Alvey of Delta County present citations to for- mer Board President Jon Stavney of Eagle County. At right, President Alvey honors John Justman of Mesa County for his service. The annual honors are accorded during an after-meeting picnic on the grounds of the Colorado River District offices along the Colorado River in Glenwood Springs. Colorado River District’s Annual Water Seminar set for Friday, September 15th The Colorado River District’s popular one-day Annual contingency planning to reduce Lower Basin water use. Water Seminar is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 15th from Bill Hasencamp, Manager of Colorado River Resources 9:00 am to 3:30 pm at Two Rivers Convention Center, 159 for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Main Street, Grand Junction, Colorado. will bring the California and Lower Basin perspective to The theme is: “Points of No Return.” The cost, which the knot of issues, such as the Salton Sea, that bedevil includes buffet lunch, is $30 if pre-registered by Friday, how the Lower Basin will address declining water levels at Sept. 8th; $40 at the door. Cost for students is $10. The Lake Mead. cost is kept low in order to encourage as much public Yet another “Point of No Return” to be examined is the participation as possible for the District’s signature water concept of filling Lake Mead first at the expense of Lake education event. Powell. Offering a critical analysis of that concept will be “Points of No Return” address several swirling Colo- Utah State University Professor Jack Schmidt. “Fill Mead rado River challenges, not the least being the emerging First” proposes draining Lake Powell in a three-stage pro- understanding about how agricultural irrigation efficiency cess and storing most Colorado River water in Lake Mead, can result in unintended consequences to other water 300 miles downstream. users, groundwater levels, late season streamflows and The invited keynote speaker is Mike Connor, the the environment. Speakers include Colorado River former Reclamation Commissioner who was later District Board member Bill Trampe, Southwest Water appointed the Deputy Secretary for the Department of Conservation District Board member Don Schwindt and the Interior in the Obama administration, the second River District Deputy Chief Engineer Dave Kanzer. ranking official. Another “Point of No Return” deals with the fate of the To register contact Meredith at [email protected] or Salton Sea in California and how its declining levels and 970-945- 8522. For more seminar information visit: environmental problems jeopardize basinwide drought www.ColoradoRiverDistrict.org. Board of Directors Meeting Summary Page 2 July 2017 Powell inflow up; changes coming to Reclamation Lake Powell serves as the Upper Basin states’ savings ac- count by which it meets Colorado River Compact obligations to the Lower Basin states -- through snowmelt years good and bad. Most of the last 17 years have been lean and the reservoir will be roughly at 50 percent of capacity after water is Eric Kuhn and CFWE Board members Greg delivered to the Lower Basin. Hobbs and Eric Hecox at the award presentation. General Manager Eric Kuhn told the Colorado River District At right, General Manager Eric Kuhn. Board that despite the fall-off from record snows in mid-winter, the Colorado River’s spring runoff into Powell for the April to CFWE fetes Kuhn with July period will still be a healthy 8.3 million acre-feet (maf) or about 115 percent of average (7.16 maf). Releases from Lake Powell this year and next will therefore Leadership Award be 9 maf to the Lower Basin and Lake Mead. Despite the Colorado River District General Manager Eric Kuhn was above-average runoff, it still fell short of triggering larger honored by hundreds of water professionals as part of the Colo- releases to Lake Mead under “equalization” criteria set in the rado Foundation for Water Education (CFWE) annual President's 2007 Interim Guidelines Agreement among the states to Reception in Denver this past May. better manage levels between the two reservoirs. He received the Diane Hoppe Leadership Award that recog- Lake Mead has been hovering around the 1,070’-1,080’ nized his “body of work in the field of water resources benefiting range in elevation, or about 38 percent full. That is low the Colorado public; a reputation among peers; and a com- enough to meet the criteria for the 9.0 maf releases from Lake mitment to balanced and accurate information, among other Powell. Usual releases are 8.23 maf. qualities.” The Bureau of Reclamation’s July water supply forecast Longtime friend and associate, Jim Lochhead, CEO and Man- shows there is about a 50/50 chance that the Lower Basin will ager of Denver Water, called Kuhn “one of the most influential see a “tier 1” shortage in 2019, but Kuhn said he believes the persons in the Colorado River Basin” as he presented the award. risk is lower, thanks to last winter’s good precipitation in Lochhead detailed Kuhn’s accomplishments, especially noting his California. That will allow the Metropolitan Water District of key leadership on the Colorado River Cooperative Agreement Southern California to put virtually every drop of water it can and Windy Gap Firming agreements that protect the West Slope divert from the Colorado River system into its storage reserves. while providing water-supply certainty for Front Range This combined with a general reduction in consumptive use in municipalities. the Lower Basin will keep Lake Mead levels above the Kuhn is in his 36th year of work at the Colorado River District 1,075’ (on December 31st) tier 1 shortage trigger. and is slated to retire in early 2018. Article by Justice Greg Kuhn also reported that President Trump intends to nomi- Hobbs: http://bit.ly/2vOjLlE nate Brenda Burman as the next Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), a key position for the Southwest because of Reclamation’s many federal water projects. Kuhn revenues through power and municipal water sales. Plus they praised the choice for Burman’s wealth of experience in the have strong political constituents. On the other hand, the Colorado River basin. Her most recent job was Director of smaller irrigation projects (which was the primary purpose of Water Strategies for the Salt River Project. She previously the Reclamation Act in 1902) are hurting, he said. worked for the Department of the Interior and The Nature An example is the Paonia Project in the North Fork (and Conservancy. many more on the West Slope). These projects are small and Kuhn said Burman will have a daunting job as Reclamation rural. They are important to the local economies, but the ben- faces challenges with aging infrastructure, a huge backlog of eficiaries can’t afford and don’t have the political power to find deferred maintenance and many in a talented workforce the resources to maintain and rebuild the projects. The River nearing retirement. He added that Reclamation’s big projects District is working with Paonia Project entities to help work on such as the Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam benefit by its aging dam. See details on the next page. Board of Directors Meeting Summary Page 3 July 2017 Work set to begin on 3 Lower Gunnison Projects Modernization and repair work on and the Crawford focus areas will three water projects should begin this begin in the fall of 2018. fall under the Colorado River District’s In addition to the off-farm improve- Lower Gunnison Project (LGP), Deputy ments, the LGP also targets and is Chief Engineer and Water Dave Kanzer funding almost $1.6 million of on-farm Resources Specialist Sonja Chavez irrigation improvements. reported to the Board of Directors. The River District is managing $8 Chavez reported that 14 applica- million in Regional Conservation tions were received, and eight se- Partnership Program (RCPP) funding lected on-farm irrigation-efficiency as an agent of the U.S. Natural Re- projects are set to begin planning and sources Conservation Service (NRCS). preliminary design to date. Up to 14 This funding will leverage up to $50 more may be funded in the near million in irrigation modernization future. and improvement projects in the Construction implementation of on- Lower Gunnison Basin. farm efficiency projects, including the Work on three water-use efficiency funding of sprinklers, drip systems and projects is expected to begin after the soil health improvements will follow required Environmental Assessment is next year. finalized, clearing the way for the use Board President Tom Alvey, an of federal funds that were originally orchardist in the North Fork Valley, appropriated by the U.S. Congress in complimented Kanzer and Chavez the 2014 Farm Bill. “on their work to get farmers in the Water flows over the Paonia Reservoir Work in the Lower Gunnison this right place to take advantage of outlet during spring runoff. The dam at the fall includes: these programs.” reservoir will be the subject of work to — The Fire Mountain Canal Recon- relieve silting issues in the outlet works figuration Project near Hotchkiss, in below the dam. the North Fork of the Gunnison River Progress reported focus area, cooperatively funded with on Paonia Reservoir repairs U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Salinity Paonia Dam and Reservoir, a Bu- cost of $3 million. Work at Paonia Program and Colorado Water Conser- reau of Reclamation facility built in Reservoir is being funded from power vation Board (CWCB) planning funds.
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