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8th Annual DARCA Convention Program Feb 11-12 |
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 |
Agricultural Water - Reinventing Strategies for a New World
Convention
Day One
Thursday, February 11
Focus On: Laying the
Groundwork—What’s Ahead for Ag?
8:00 a.m. Registration
and Breakfast — Continental breakfast.
9:00 a.m. Welcome
Phil Bertrand, Superintendent of the Grand Valley
Irrigation Company
& President of DARCA
9:15 a.m. Colorado River Water Availability Study
Ray Alvarado, Section Chief of the Water Information for the
Colorado Water Conservation Board
How
Dust-on-Snow is Complicating Ditch and Reservoir Operations
Chris Landry, Executive Director of Center for Snow & Avalanche
Studies &
Colorado Dust-on-Snow Program
Manager
10:15 a.m. Networking and Exhibits - Enjoy Refreshments
& Snacks.
10:45 a.m. Colorado Water Congress Legislative
Update
Doug Kemper, Executive Director of the
Colorado Water Congress
11:15 a.m. Alternatives to Traditional
Buy and Dry Transfers –
What do DARCA Members
Want?
Troy Lepper, Sociology Water Lab,
Colorado State University
11:30 a.m. Colorado’s Next Generation
of Farmers
The Economics and Carbon Footprint
of the New Agriculture
Kyle Baker,
University of Colorado
12:00 a.m. Lunch & Guest Speaker
John Stulp, Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture
Focus On:
What’s Happening in Colorado
1:00 p.m. Drainage
Systems & Districts in Colorado
Will
Hutchins, Director, Bona Fide Ditch Company & DARCA Board Member
John McKenzie, Executive Director, DARCA
2:00 p.m. Pressurized Systems - Dolores Project
Ken Curtis, Engineer, Dolores Water Conservancy District
2:45 p.m. Networking and Exhibits.—Enjoy Refreshments & Snacks.
3:15 p.m. Reinventing the Bureau of Reclamation..Future Strategies
Bill McDonald, Pacific Northwest Regional Director,
United States Bureau of Reclamation
4:00p.m. Ag Efficiency
Rules
Heath Kuntz, Senior Project
Hydrologist/Agronomist,
Leonard Rice Engineers,
Inc.
4:45 p.m. Ag to Urban Transfers Update
Peter Nichols, Esq. Trout, Raley, Montaño, Witwer & Freeman, P.C.,
General Counsel of the Super Ditch
6:00 p.m.
Reception at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum
and tour of the adjoining machine shop.
7:30 p.m. Dinner on
your own
Convention Day Two
Friday, February 12
8:00 a.m. Breakfast with the Board
Join us
for "Breakfast with the Board" to help plan DARCA's future!
8:30
a.m. DARCA Annual Board Meeting
Election of
board members and other DARCA business.
If
you would like to become more involved with DARCA,
please consider running for a position on the Board of Directors.
Focus
On: DARCA’s Role for Ditch Companies
9:00 a.m. GIS
Opportunities for Ditch Companies
Mannie Colon,
Canon City Hydraulic and Irrigating Company &
Vice-President of DARCA
10:00 a.m. Networking and
Exhibits.—Enjoy Refreshments & Snacks.
10:30 a.m. Issues
Facing the Western Slope
Aaron Clay, Esq. Clay
& Dodson, P.C., Delta
11:30 a.m. DARCA Wrap Up: DARCA
Education & Consulting Services
Facilitated
dialogue with participants
Eve Triffo, &
John McKenzie, DARCA Board Members
12:00 a.m. Convention Ends.
Lunch is on your own.
Please enjoy one of Durango’s fine restaurants. |
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