2010 Annual Conference

Managing a River of Issues
December 15-17, 2010
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas

Wednesday, December 15

Registration 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

8:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. New Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge & Lake Mead Intake No. 3 Preview Tour (Tour full, reserved guests only)
9:00 a.m. Program Committee – Consul Boardroom
9:00 a.m. Membership Committee – Genoa
9:00 a.m. Nominations Committee – Livorno
9:00 a.m. Public Affairs Committee – Senate Boardroom
9:00 a.m. Resolutions Committee – Anzio
9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Upper Colorado River Commission – Messina
10:00 a.m. Audit Committee – Modena
10:30 a.m. Budget Committee – Modena
11:00 a.m. Committee Chairs Meeting – Siena
11:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Board of Trustees Lunch and Meeting – Florentine I-II
2:00 – 6:00 p.m. Exhibit Hall Open – Palace I-II
2:30 – 5:00 p.m. Engineering Colloquium – Roman IV

Engineering Adaptations to Increasing Water Scarcity

Moderator: Marc Jensen, Director of Engineering, Southern Nevada Water Authority

Navajo Power Generating Station Intakes Lowering David Jurich, P.E., Manager, Hatch Mott MacDonald

All American Canal Warren Brock (Drop 2) Reservoir David Palumbo, Regional Engineer, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation – Lower Colorado Region

Animas-La Plata Project

Rick Ehat, Project Engineer, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation – Four Corners Construction Office

Lake Mead Intake No. 3

Marc Jensen

California Bay Delta Conveyance Plan Roger Patterson, Assistant General Manager – Strategic Water Initiatives, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Legal Colloquium – Florentine III-IV

Reclamation’s Latest Update of “The Hoover Dam Documents”

Katherine Verburg, Field Solicitor, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Thursday, December 16

Registration 6:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
7:00a.m.–7:00 p.m. Exhibit Hall Open – Palace I-II
7:30 a.m. State Breakfasts

Arizona State Caucus - Florentine III-IV

California State Caucus - Florentine I-II

Colorado State Caucus - Capri

Nevada State Caucus - Pompeian III-IV

New Mexico State Caucus - Genoa

Ten Tribes Partnership - Livorno

Utah State Caucus - Pompeian I-II

Wyoming State Caucus - Anzio
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Business Meeting - Palace III - Video

John A. Zebre, CRWUA President

9:15 a.m. Video Presentation: Managing a River of Issues - Video
9:30 a.m. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Remarks - Palace III - Video

David Murillo, Assistant Commissioner, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

9:45 – 10:15 a.m. Through the Lens: Images of Hoover Dam and the Bypass Bridge - Palace III - Video

Michael Green , Professor of History, College of Southern Nevada, providing narration for historical photographs by Segerblom

Jamey Stillings, Photographer, Bypass Bridge at Hoover Dam
10:15 a.m. Break, Prize Drawing at beginning of 10:30 a.m. session
10:30 a.m. - Noon Black Fuel in a Green World: Coal Power in the Future - Palace III - Video

Moderator: William R. Gray, Chief Operating Officer, Arizona School of Real Estate and Business Scottsdale

Richard Walje, President, Rocky Mountain Power

Ardeth Barnhart, Co-Director, AzRize

David Modeer , General Manager, Central Arizona Project

George Arthur, Chair, Resources Committee of the Navajo Nation Council
Noon - 1:45 p.m. Lunch and Baxter Black Show Augustus I-II

Music provided by the James Kilpatrick Quartet

Prize Drawing at beginning of 2:00 p.m. session
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Law and Disorder: Water Law on the Colorado - Palace III - Video

Moderator: Chris Treese, External Affairs Manager, Colorado River Water Conservation District

Douglas Kenney, Senior Research Associate, University of Colorado Natural Resources Law Center (PowerPoint)

Rebuttals and Concurrences:

John Entsminger, Assistant General Manager for Strategic Initiatives, Southern Nevada Water Authority

Felicity Hannay , U.S. Commissioner, Upper Colorado River Commission

Taylor Hawes, Colorado River Program Director, The Nature Conservancy

Warren Kotzmann, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives

Stanley Pollack, Assistant Attorney General, Navajo Nation Department of Justice and Risk, Arizona Public Services Co.
3:30 p.m. Break, Prize Drawing at beginning of 3:45 p.m. session
3:45 – 4:45 p.m. Dust Busting: Dirt Layer Accelerates Snowmelt in the Rockies – Palace III - Video

Moderator: Chris Finlinson, Government Affairs Director, Central Utah Water Conservancy District

Brad Udall , Director, Western Water Assessment

Thomas H. Painter, Scientist IV, Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Caltech

Jayne Belnap, Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Percolation and Runoff – Palace I-II

Friday, December 17
7:00 – 9:30 a.m. Exhibit Hall Open – Palace I-II

Continental breakfast available 7:00 – 9:00 a.m.
8:00 – 8:45 a.m. Take No Prisoners: Beating Back Invading Species – Palace III - Video

Leonard Willet, Environmental Compliance Monitor, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation – Hoover Dam
8:45 a.m. break
9:00 – 9:45 a.m. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Roundtable Discussion – Palace III - Video

Michael Connor, Commissioner, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Lorri Gray-Lee, Lower Colorado River Regional Director, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (PowerPoint)

Larry Walkoviak, Upper Colorado River Regional Director, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
9:45 – 10:30 a.m. Secretary of the Interior Keynote Address – Palace III - Video

Ken Salazar, Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior
10:30 a.m. Prize Drawing and Adjournment
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