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• Board Meeting Date: 5/23/2007
• Description: Intrastate Water Management and Development Section - Water Supply Reserve Account Applications for Grants
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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Finance:

Agency Liaison:

Chair: Wayne Whittaker
Loretta Kennedy
John Singletary

Chair: Loretta Kennedy
Wayne Whittaker

Water Acquisition:

Legal:

Chair: Leroy Mauch
John Singletary
Loretta Kennedy
Wayne Whittaker
Melissa Esquibel
Pete Moore

Chair: Melissa Esquibel
Wayne Whittaker
Pete Moore
John Singletary

Personnel:

Chair: Loretta Kennedy
Melissa Esquibel
John Singletary

EI Paso County Water Authority

The E1 Paso County Water Authority, is organized under an Establishing Contract as a water authority, a body corporate
and politic, a separate governmental entity, a political subdivision and a public corporation of the State of Colorado,
pursuant to Section 18(2)(a) and 2(b) of Article XIV, Constitution of the State of Colorado, and to ~ 29-1-204.2, Colorado
Revised Statutes approved on or about November 4, 1996. The document is recorded at Reception No. 097075620 of the
records of the EI Paso County Clerk and Recorder's Office.

The Authority currently has seventeen members, including metropolitan districts, water and sanitation districts, towns and
cities within EI Paso County. The Authority meets the first Wednesday of each month in the Board of County
Commissioners Hearing Room, 3rd Floor, EI Paso County Administration Building, 27 East Vermijo, Colorado Springs,
Colorado. The monthly meetings are open to the public and carried over the internet by the EI Paso County Information
Technology Department.

Since its inception, the Authority has completed a Water Report Master Plan and engaged a manager and lobbyist. The
members focus on regional approaches to local water supply issues. Current activities include facilitation of a Transit
Loss Model Update for Fountain and Monument Creek to increase water use efficiency. In cooperation with the Upper
Black Squirrel Management District, the Authority hopes to begin a study with the Colorado Geological Survey to
investi ate alluvial a uifer stora e and recove in the U er Black S uirrel Desi ated Groundwater Basin.