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.. .. . The fourth request was at the September 2006 CWCB meeting in Vail, Colorado and was for the Town of Columbine Valley to improve drainage conditions and replace a drainage pipe from 1956. . To summarize briefly: The two Roxborough easement agreements have been executed, and they are finished rerouting drainage at Belleview. Roxborough is in the temporary construction easement phase for the wastewater pipeline, and contractors have been hired. The schedule estimates that Roxborough will be through the CWCB reach in the next two to four months, although this depends on weather conditions. Special attention has been paid to the recreation/construction interface. Contractors are staging equipment and supplies to begin crossing the South Platte River at Belleview and start working southward on the South Platte River. The Columbine Valley Golf Club easement has recently been executed. The two large easements generated $125,000 for the CWCB that will be used for maintenance activities on the South Platte River such as bank stabilization, tree removal, culvert cleaning. This reach is annually inspected by the Corps of Engineers. The Town of Columbine Valley's easement is in progress and should be executed by December 2006. Staff will periodically update the Board on progress of the Roxborough easement. South Platte River GIS Project: Flood Protection staff have developed a small GIS and database project related to the seven miles ofCWCB floodplain lands and its easement grantees. Features like land ownership, recreation trails, and South Platte Channel Improvement Project features will be mapped and readily available. A key feature of this project is the database of easement grantees. This project will capitalize on recent work ofTST Infrastructure, the engineering consultant for Roxborough Park Metropolitan District. A Purchase Order was issued to Planet GIS for $20,000 on October 24 to commence the project. Staff will update the Board with an infonnational presentation once this project nears completion. . 8B06-193 Underground Water Storage Study Update: The objective of this study is to identify and perfonn an evaluation of potential underground water storage sites within the South Platte and Arkansas River Basins, taking into account technical, economic and ecological considerations. The study is being perfonned by CDM, under the supervision of the CWCB, and in coordination with the Colorado Geological Survey. The scope of work for the study includes three main tasks: 1) Data Compilation and Site Characterization; 2) Site Evaluation; and 3) Reporting. The first task comprises the majority of the study, and this is where the current work is being done. Numerous previous studies and related data have been collected and reviewed, and experts within both the South Platte and Arkansas Basins are being contacted regarding their experience and ideas concerning potential sites for underground storage in their respective basins. The project team has also met with and solicited input from the groundwater committees for the three IBCC Roundtables affected by the study: South Platte, Metro, and Arkansas. The remaining analysis and documentation will be completed in the next two months, with a draft report completed in January 2007. The study is due to the legislature by March t, 2007. Bill Transferring Water Rights Signed Into Law: On October 13, U.S. Rep.Marilyn Musgrave announced that her bill to transfer control of federal water infrastructure to local management was signed into law by President Bush. The new law transfers three distribution facilities from the Bureau of Reclamation to the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District. The titles to the S1. Vrain Supply Canal, Boulder Creek Supply Canal, and the South Platte Supply Canal were transferred when the president signed Musgrave's bill. These are part of the larger Colorado-Big Thompson Project, which diverts 260,000 acre-feet of water annually from the Colorado River headwaters on the Western Slope to the Northern Front Range. . The local Northern Colorado Water Conservation District has been responsible for maintaining these facilities for the federal Bureau of Reclamation since the project was operational in 1957. 31