FLOOD11200

• County: Jefferson
• County: Arapahoe
• Basin: South Platte
• Title: Chatfield Reallocation Study: Meeting Minutes 11/30/2006
• Date: 11/30/2006
• Prepared For: Meeting Participants
• Prepared By: CWCB
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Meeting Summary

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. Need for continued federal appropriations for FR/EIS and ER work
o Congress will adjourn by December 15 and very little progress made. Only two bills passed.

. Energy and Water Appropriations Bill and WRDA Bill
o Chatfield request is in Energy and Water Bill that is waiting to go to conference. Senator Allard is
on that committee. The request could be a continuation resolution and once that happens
determines where to go with local funding. We are not directly dependent on Energy and Water
Bill but it dictates how we handle the future.

. Corps of Engineers/Tetra Tech Reports
o The Corps presented a new draft schedule that identified the steps more clearly and a provided a
conservative best guess for milestones. The Corps has lengthy review processes. Independent
Technical Review of EIS would be done by other Corps Districts.
o Water quality and recreation impacts need to be finalized and environmental mitigation is still
being discussed now. Need to select a preferred plan then go to the alternative formulation.
o We need to determine negative impacts and don't need to quantify the positive impacts.
o Dan McAuliffe Deputy Director of the CWCB stated that the CWCB could set aside $IOOM for
loans and contracts with the 16 water users. The Water Users should work directly with Kirk
Russell at the CWCB at (303) 866 - 3449 or [e-mail] to submit applications by
August 31,2007 to the CWCB construction fund. Then the CWCB will have the authority to
issue the money to the Corps.
o In order to get a loan through the CWCB (highly encouraged) entities that service over 2,000 AF
of water will need a new water conservation plan. The CWCB has new legislation and grant
funding to help entities produce new water conservation plans. Please contact Veva McCaig at
the CWCB at (303) 866 - 3339 or [e-mail].
o Water Users expressed concern that Chatfield storage amounts are in their long range plans and
the completion date keeps getting bumped back. Is September 15,2008 the real date to count on
storage space contracts? If and when the project is deemed feasible many factors like how fast
can recreation facilities get relocated and mitigation measures add to the timeline.
o Reasons that we continue to slip the project schedule are: federal funding, State Parks recreation
study input is needed for chapters of the FRlEIS, the contract expired with Tetra Tech,
cooperating agency review, Corps loss of re programming authority.

. FR/EIS Report - Status and Tasks Ahead
o Marty Timmerwilke is retiring in January and so is the Omaha Corps Chief of Planning Ralph
Roza. Dave Brandon at the Corps will keep this project going.
o Tetra Tech needs the cost calculation of reallocation from the Corps. This helps with the
economic feasibility analysis.
o Tetra Tech has finished habitat mapping, migratory bird habitat mapping and will go to the FWS
to help develop options for mitigation.
o Tetra Tech still need input from the group to continue progress on preliminary FRlEIS and will
contact those Water Users individually.

. Recreation Impact Study (State Parks)
o State Parks is 80% complete on the Recreation Study. Main challenges: marina, west-side
facilities, swim beach, and then south side ponds. Marina mitigation will bring a large price tag.
Parks has options that the group can pick and choose from.
o One problem is the swim beach and 9 to 21 foot fluctuations. So far this is a problem with no
solutions and its not satisfactory to State Parks.
o The south side ponds are inundated at 5444.
o Parks is doing a sensitivity analysis of reservoir inflow outflow modeling and questions how
accurate or good is the model?
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