The Gunnison Basin roundtable decided to abandon any attempts to lobby for the alteration of a spending bill that would forward $500,000 to the Colorado Water Conservation Board for the study of water projects around the state. The study would look at six projects, including one that would pump water out of the Gunnison Basin. The roundtable moved to request that the CWCB include them with the scope of work to spend the money should the legislation pass. The request for the study, made in the fall, sprang from a statewide water committee designed to come up with solutions to projected water shortages.

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