Wyoming State Water Plan
Wyoming State Water Plan
Wyoming Water Development Office
6920 Yellowtail Rd
Cheyenne, WY 82002
Phone: 307-777-7626
Wyoming Water Development Office
6920 Yellowtail Rd
Cheyenne, WY 82002
Phone: 307-777-7626
The meeting generally followed the format of the agenda distributed by the WWDO:
1. Introductions
Chace Tavelli introduced the team and presented several logistical details about the meeting.
2. Description and purpose of meeting
Chace described the broad goals of the planning update and made mention of the WGS effort on updating groundwater information. Chace described the handouts at the meeting (comment card and issues list), and the methods through which the State and Planning Team was collecting input.
3. Consultant update
Murray Schroeder presented handouts and described recent progress on three topics.
First, a handout on weather mapping (prepared by WRDS) was distributed. Murray mentioned that the 2001 plan was short on weather information and that these mapping products would help improve that shortcoming. Chris Nicholson described the maps in the handout and how they were prepared.
Second, a handout was distributed outlining the findings of the phone survey of stakeholders in the basin. The handout included a list of issues and strategies that were reported by Murray to be the most common themes and ideas mentioned by those who were contacted.
Finally, a handout was presented that compared Task 3 Water Availability estimates 2001 versus 2008 for the Henry's fork. This work was done by Meg Frantz. The graphs show that there is about 22% less water available during June in normal years at this location. This is the result of extending the period of record from 2001 to present, and having the recent years is relatively dry.
4. Presentations
At the conclusion of his presentation, Larry presented three issues that he felt needed to be discussed or resolved in some way during the execution of the basin plan update. These issues included:
END MEETING 9:45 PM