Transcript How Do You Administer a Bird Call? Sharing the Resource Sharing the Resource.

How Do You Administer
a Bird Call?
Sharing the Resource
Sharing the Resource
Sharing the Resource
Conflict:
• Species Habitat = Need for Water
• Platte Basin Water Resource is Highly
Developed
• How are Species water needs integrated
into this situation?
Bird Call
No Water Right
Not a part of a compact
ESA
(Environment Shares Assets)
Issues
• Working within an existing water rights
system
– Fully Appropriated
– Existing State statutes
• Interstate Compact / Supreme Court
Decree
Future Water Demand
Statewide Gross M&I and Self-supplied Industrial Water
Demands – 2000 to 2030
Basin
Total
2000
Gross
Demand
(AF)
Projected
Conservation
Savings
(AF)
Projected
2030 Gross
Demand
(AF)
Increase in
Gross
Demand
(AF)
Estimated
Demand met by
future water
supplies and
additional
conservation
(AF)
Identified
Gross Demand
Shortfall
(AF)
Arkansas
256,900
18,600
354,900
98,000
80,500
17,500
Colorado
74,100
7,800
136,000
61,900
58,700
3,200
San Juan / Dolores / San Miguel
23,600
2,400
42,400
18,800
13,900
4,900
Gunnison
20,600
2,100
35,500
14,900
12,500
2,400
North Platte
500
—
600
100
100
—
Rio Grande
17,400
1,400
21,700
4,300
4,300
—
South Platte
772,400
68,700
1,182,100
409,700
319,100
90,600
29,400
900
51,700
22,300
22,300
—
1,194,900
101,900
1,824,900
630,000
511,400
118,600
Yampa / White / Green
TOTAL
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COLORADO’S EXPORT STATUTE
No person may divert, carry, or transport any surface or ground water
from this state by ditches, canals, pipes, conduits, natural streams,
watercourses, or other means without meeting the requirements for
obtaining a well permit or…without first obtaining an adjudication
from the water court for the right to use water outside the state.
An approval by the SEO, GW Commission, or Water Judge must find,
among other things that:
•
The proposed use of water outside this state is expressly authorized
by interstate compact or is credited as a delivery.
•
The proposed use of water will not deprive the citizens of this state
of the beneficial use of waters apportioned to CO by interstate
compact.
South Platte River Compact
CRS § 37-65-101, Article IV
Between April 1 and October 15, Colorado may
not permit diversions junior to June, 1897 in
the compact’s lower section, to an extent that
they will diminish the flow of the river at the
interstate station below 120 cfs
From October 15 to April 1, Colorado has full
and uninterrupted use and benefit of the
water flowing within the state
Flows @ Overton, NE
• 1895-1909
2,650,000 AF/yr
• 1936-1969
825,000 AF/yr
• 1970-1999
1,520,000 AF/yr
• 2000-2010
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TARGET FLOWS
12 k
10 k
8k
6k
4k
2k
0k
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Grand Island, NE (1979)
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Conclusions
Can Re-regulate to meet Species needs
• Annual flow (1,520,000 AF/yr)
• Target Flows = 1,250,000 AF/yr
No Room for New Depletions in Platte River
We can Share a Developed Resource if…..
Scientific Process vs. Certainty
for Water Supplies
Tensions
SCIENCE
WATER MANAGEMENT
• Limited knowledge
Provide Water Supplies
about species
• Definite Plan for Costs
• Disagreement on
Certainty, i.e. Regulatory
solutions, management
Compliance
strategies, interpretation
More Information
= DEFINED
More Hypothesis Testing
CONTRIBUTIONS
=ADAPTIVE
MANAGEMENT
Definition of Adaptive
Management
• Adaptive management as described in this
Adaptive Management Plan (AMP) is a
series of scientifically driven management
actions…to test priority hypotheses related
to management decisions and actions, and
apply the resulting information to improve
management.
Basic Premises
• Uncertainty exists, can never be
eliminated, but can be reduced to improve
management
• Decisions must be made despite the
uncertainty
• Monitoring and research required
• Management decisions will be improved in
the future
Agreement
SCIENCE
Adaptive Management
Plan
• Tests Competing Hypoth.
• Extensive Monitoring
Within Program Resources
Not Tied to Compliance
GC Agrees to Changes in
Management Actions
WATER MANAGERS
Defined Contributions
• Provide Resources
• Offset New Depletions
Regulatory Compliance
for 13 Years
No Unexpected Costs
Conclusions
• Knowledge can be expanded
• Competing Hypotheses can be tested,
within resource limitations
• Water users can get some certainty for
providing water supplies
• Costs are known
If…