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• Board Meeting Date: 9/17/2008
• Description: WPFM Section - Chatfield Reallocation Study - Letters of Commitment
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Letter of Commitment
Related to
The Reallocation of Storage Space in
Chatfield Reservoir
This letter of Commitment, entered into this ___ date of September, 2008, by and
between the Colorado Water Conservation Bo ard (hereinafter referred to as the
“CWCB”) and Colorado Division of Parks a nd Outdoor Recreation (hereinafter referred
to as the “User”):
WITNESSETH THAT:
WHEREAS, the United Stat es, acting through the United States Army Corps of
Engineers (Corps) has constructed Chatfield Re servoir on the South Platte River in 1973;
and
WHEREAS, the Corps is conducting a f easibility Study funded by a Feasibility
Cost Share Agreement (FCSA) between th e Corps and the CWCB dated 9/2/1999, (the
“FCSA Study”), as authori zed under Section 808 of the Water Resources Development
Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-662), to “reassi gn a portion of the storage space in the
Chatfield Lake project to join t flood control- conservation pu rposes, including storage for
municipal and industrial water supply, agricu lture, and recreation and fishery habitat
protection and enhancement”; and
WHEREAS, the CWCB, in accordance with Section 808 of the Water Resources
Development Act 1986, is the Study sponsor, ha s contributed significant funding towards
the FCSA Study, is coordinating th e interests of the Co lorado Water Entities listed in the
attached Exhibit “A” in storag e space in Chatfield Reservoir and, if storage space is made
available, will represent the Colorado Water En tities’ interests in requesting storage space
in Chatfield Reservoir from the Corps; and
WHEREAS, the Corps has reached a pr eliminary finding from the FCSA Study
that 20,600 acre-feet (AF) of permanent st orage space is potentially available for
reallocation in Chatfi eld Reservoir; and
WHEREAS; the Colorado Water Entitie s interested in acquiring space in
Chatfield have conducted an open, widely ad vertised process of multiple meetings
between June 30, 2004 and January 4, 2005 and reached the consensus recommendation
of what they believed was an equitable re allocation of the poten tially available 20,600 AF
storage space among the Colorado Water Entities as describe d in Exhibit A, attached
hereto; and
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