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The Hutchins Water Center, in coordination with the Grand Valley Water Users and Water Bank Work Group, convened a meeting October 13, 2016 to discuss the Conserved Consumptive Use Pilot Project in the Grand Valley. The project was initiated as part of the Colorado Water Bank Work Group's investigation of the feasibility of various approaches to water banking. 

This article in the Glenwood Springs Post-Independent summarizes the program in the context of basinwide Colorado River issues. 

Since that 2016 meeting, the Conserved Consumptive Use Pilot Project was implemented by the Grand Valley Water Users for another year in 2017, and a plan was developed for a 2018 program.

Subsequently, deepening drought stimulated a Colorado Basin-wide negotiation on drought contingency planning and potential demand management strategies to protect the viability of the Colorado River's major reservoirs. A meeting on draft drought contingency planning policy documents was convened on October 23, 2018. 

This page is archiving materials from this series of discussions and developments. 

Updates

July 2020 Final Report: Beyond Conserved Consumptive Use - Creating Productive Water Markets

July 2019 Final Report: Grand Valley Conserved Consumptive Use Pilot Projects

January 2018 Status Report Cover Letter

March 2017 Report - GVWUA Conserved Consumptive Use Pilot Project (CCUPP) Development: Process, Procedure and Lessons Learned

October 23, 2018 Meeting

Planning for an Uncertain Future: Drought Contingency Planning, Demand Management and the West Slope 

October 2016 Meeting