FLOOD11191

• County: Jefferson
• County: Arapahoe
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Chatfield Reallocation Study: Meeting Minutes 03/02/2006
• Date: 3/2/2006
• Prepared For: Meeting Participants
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Meeting Summary

STATE OF COLORADO

Colorado Water Conservation Board

Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
www.cwcb.state.co.us

MEMORANDUM

Bill Owens
Governor

TO:
FROM:

Chatfield Reservoir Reallocation Study Group
Tom Browning, Chief, Flood Protection Program
Joe Busto, Flood Protection Program
March 9, 2006
Chatfield Meeting Summary for March 2, 2006

Russell George
Executive Director

Rod Kuharich
CWCB Director

DATE:
RE:

Rick Brown
Acting Deputy Director

Attachments
. Draft Project Performance Schedule
. Sign in sheets
. FRlEIS Table of Contents
. Downstream User Group handout
. Final Antecedent Flood Study Report

CorDs of En2:ineers ReDort and Tetra Tech ReDorts

. Schedule - Centennial W & S, the Corps and the CWCB held and interim progress meeting that led to a
new Draft Performance Schedule. The Corps strategy was to anticipate enough time for each task to
make the schedule as realistic as possible. The new target dates include a preliminary draft Feasibility
Report/Environmental Impact Statement (FRlEIS) IS by September 30, 2006, a Draft (FRlEIS) by
December 31, 2006, and a Final FRlEIS by July 1, 2007. Under this schedule, storage contracts could be
initiated in November 2007.
. Funding - The Corps requested $276K in funding for FY 2006 and received $134K. The Corps has
invoiced for $276K of the water users funding from the CWCB and received this in February 2006.
There appears to be sufficient funding for the remainder ofthis fiscal year. The President's proposed
budget for FY 2007 does not have Chatfield Reallocation Study funding in it. As it currently stands, the
Corps would not have their share ofthe funding next year. There is still time to work through
Congressional channels to ensure that funding for the study appears in the budget for next year. Due to
recent new laws, the Corps has lost the ability to reprogram funds from one account to another as they
have been able to do in the past.
. Cost share - There was discussion about possibly needing the non-federal cost share to be more than
50/50 in the interim. That would be OK as long as the final federal to non-federal cost share was at
50/50. It would not be good to be too out of balance in favor oflocal/state funding. The concern is that
if the Corps owes money at project completion they would need to go back to Congress and get that
additional money.
. Antecedent Flood Study - Joel Knofczynski reaffirmed that the Corps HQ had approved the
Antecedent flood study findings. The Final Report and approval letter are attached to the minutes.
. Operational Plan/Models - Joel has completed the model runs for the 20,600 AF storage pool and the
data has been sent to Tetra Tech for impact analyses. The model runs from the other target storage pool
of 7700 AF will be sent to Tetra Tech early in March 2006. Joel explained that his analysis is modeling

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