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GMDA Summer Session - "Well Curtailment Across the Country - How is Your State Coping?"

Estes Park, CO     June 4 - 5, 2007

Monday - June 4, 2007

7:30 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome and Introduction of Sponsors and Speakers  
9:00 a.m. Groundwater in the West - Melinda Casson, Trout Unlimited
9:45 a.m. History of Well Curtailments in Nebraska - James Goeke, University of Nebraska
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. A Coordinated Well Meter Program in the Lower Rio Grande Basin - Gary Esslinger, Elephant Butte Irrigation District
11:30 a.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Groundwater Administration in Wyoming -Randy Tullis, Wyoming Division 1 Engineer
1:45 p.m. The Need to Manage the Snake River Aquifer - Lynn Tominaga, Idaho Ground Water Appropriators, Inc.
2:30 p.m. Break
2:45 p.m. Well Shut Downs on the South Platte - Tom Cech, Central Colorado Conservancy District
3:30 p.m. Conference adjourns - Supper is on your own   

 

Tuesday - June 5, 2007

7:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Consumptive Use Modeling - Luis Garcia, Colorado State University Water Expert
9:15 a.m. Groundwater Recharge and it's Role in Pumping Allocation - Randy Ray, Central Colorado Water Conservancy District
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. Well Curtailment in the South Platte Drainage- Impacts on Municipal and Agricultural Water Users - Peter Binney, City of Aurora, Colorado Water & Sewer Department
11:00 a.m. Panel Discussion - Moderated by Jim Reasoner, Central Colorado Water Conservancy District
11:45 a.m. Lunch
1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Tour of Rocky Mountain National Park (Optional)

Presentations that are Underlined can be Viewed as pdf file.