06d

• Board Meeting Date: 5/20/2008
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

FY 04/03 Counties: All of the Boulder County levees have been identified; The CWCB has
submitted a scope outline for completing the DFIRM work for Boulder County and has received
money. The City of Boulder is still working on determining their approach as to how all of their
levees will be mapped and if they plan to certify all seven of their levees. Once there is an
approach as to how the levees will be mapped and all of the data from the City of Boulder is
received the CWCB can move forward with their effort to complete the Boulder Countywide
DFIRM project. The effective date is still unknown. (Tom Browning)
ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN
ALLARD/SALAZAR INTRODUCE ARK VALLEY PIPELINE LEGISLATION - 52974
was delivered to the Sen. Energy and Natural Resources Committee-Subcommittee on Water and Power.
The Bill would allow the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to move forward with the construction of the
Conduit first authorized as part of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. The Bill includes a 65135 cost share
agreement between Reclamation and Communities in the Lower Arkansas River Basin. (Randy Seaholm)
TRANSIT LOSSES AND TRAVEL TIMES OF RESERVOIR RELEASES ALONG THE
ARKANSAS FROM JOHN MARTIN RESERVOIR TO THE COLORADO-KANSAS
STATE LINES -The recently released report brings to conclusion the multi-year study authorized by
the Arkansas River Compact Administration. The Transit Loss study, done by Livingston Professional
Services-Hydrologic Sciences, provides information critical to future administration of the Arkansas
River Compact. See Attachment 6d-10. (Randy Seaholm)
REED DILS HONORED -Newly-minted Colorado Water Conservation Board member Reed Dils
was honored by Arkansas Valley water users for his years of work on water and conservation issues.
Dils, a retired outfitter from Buena Vista, was presented the Bob Appel Friend of the Arkansas River
award at the opening luncheon of the 2008 Arkansas River Basin Water Forum.
"I was honored and surprised," said Dils, appointed to the CWCB last month by Gov. Bill Ritter. "I
believe that through education and collaboration we can improve the river for everybody."
Dils, who has represented Chaffee County on the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
since 2005, has spent more than 30 years working on both recreational and environmental issues
associated with water.
Dils was elected by the Arkansas Basin Roundtable as its recreational representative in late 2005, was a
founding member of Collegiate Peaks Anglers Chapter of Trout Unlimited and represented his own and
other river rafting companies when whitewater experiences were a fledgling industry for the Arkansas
River.
In the mid-1980s, he was involved in the formation of the Arkansas River Headwaters Recreation Area,
and subsequently helped to develop the voluntary flow program for the Upper Arkansas River in 1990.
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