Final Minutes
Water Management Committee Conference Call
The Water Management Committee (WMC) conference call began at 1:00 p.m. After role call, John Lawson identified the main agenda items as an update on the Tamarack Subgroup progress by Jon Altenhofen and to set the date for the next WMC meeting.
The next WMC meeting will be held January 15, 2002, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. The meeting will be held in Gering, Nebraska, at the Gering Civic Center. It was also identified that a States Only meeting will be held at 1:00 p.m. on January 15; a Governance Committee Workshop will be held January 16; and the Governance Committee business meeting will be held on January 17.
Mr. Altenhofen briefed the WMC on the activities of the Tamarack Subgroup. The Tamarack Subgroup meet on December 3, 2001. At the meeting, the subgroup reviewed and discussed the most recent version of the Tamarack daily accounting spreadsheet. The spreadsheet has been populated with daily data from June 1, 2001 to present and incorporates the conveyance loss information recently developed by Nebraska for their accounting system. The subgroup also identified and discussed issues associated with Tamarack that have been summarized in the draft paper entitled, Colorado's Tamarack Plan, Operations and Issues (dated 12/10/01).
The WMC discussed whether the spreadsheet provided enough information on the daily operation of Tamarack Phase I to satisfy the associated subtask under the milestone W6-EXT. Discussion of Tamarack operations followed and included the need to review the ground water modeling information that is used to calculated the accretions that are tracked in the spreadsheet and the need to update the conveyance loss information in the spreadsheet as that information is refined by Nebraska. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) expressed an interest in comparing information from the daily accounting spreadsheet to monthly modeled values. Mr. Lawson asked the committee members to provide in writing any additional criteria needed to satisfy the subtask. Mr. Altenhofen will continue to work with the Service to develop/provide the needed criteria. Mr. Altenhofen also asked that any comments on the draft issues paper or spreadsheet be provided to him so he could make further revisions.
Mr. Lawson identified that the Technical Committee is in the process of updating the Peer Review Work Plan and Dale Strickland has asked the WMC to identify any work products that should be included for peer review. In addition, the Executive Director's Office has provided the draft Platte River Implementation Program outline and the WMC members were asked to review the outline and identify any additional water related attachments that need to be included in the "Program Documents" section of the outline. The outline will be distributed with the minutes of the call.
The call adjourned at 2:10 p.m.
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