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<br />USACE Environmental Operating Principles <br /> <br />1. Strive to achieve environmental sustainability <br />2. Recognize the interdependence of life and the physical environment <br />3. Seek balance and synergy among human development activities and natural systems by designing <br />economic and environmental solutions that support and reinforce one another <br />4. Continue to accept corporate responsibility and accountability under the law for activities and <br />decisions under our control that impact human health and welfare and the continued viability of <br />natural systems <br />5. Seek ways and means to assess and mitigate cumulative impacts to the environment; bring systems <br />approaches to the full life cycle of processes and work <br />6. Build and share an integrated scientific, economic and social knowledge base that supports a <br />greater understanding of the environment and impacts of the our work <br />7. Respect the views of individuals and groups interested in Corps activities - listen actively and <br />learn from their perspectives in the search to find innovative win-win solutions to the Nation's <br />problems that also protect and enhance the environment <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />Colorado Division of Wildlife <br />Urban Drainage and Flood Control District <br /> <br />Our Project Needs <br /> <br />. Member support for swift passage of WRDA <br />. Member support to continue flow of USACE <br />funds to Omaha Civil Works for the <br />Reallocation EIS and Feasibility Report and for <br />other downstream evaluations <br />. Member understanding and encouragement of <br />active and fruitful policy discussions with <br />USACE to develop new or revised <br />environmental metrics and criteria for an <br />urban and/or suburban river corridor <br />. May need Member support for new or revised <br />USACE policies <br /> <br />Our Team <br />Our project stakeholders include: <br /> <br />Central Colorado Water Conservancy District <br />City of Aurora <br />City of Brighton <br />Western Mutual Ditch Company <br /> <br />Audubon Society of Greater Denver <br />City and County of Denver <br />City of Littleton <br />Denver Water <br />Metropolitan Wastewater Reclamation District <br />The Greenway Foundation <br /> <br /> <br />,I <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />~.~____~,. -:1 ~lS~'" '. "'..'. <br /> <br />-_ ."...f.... -..--. <br /> <br />Photos courtesy City and County of Denver, USDA, Bill Schmoker, Great Western Institute, Google Earth <br /> <br />March 2006 <br />