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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 Board (hereinafter referred to as the “State”)
and Mount Carbon Metropolitan District (hereinafter refe rred 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 State 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 State, in accordance w ith Section 808 of the Water Resources
Development Act 1986, is the Study sponsor, ha s contributed significant funding towards
the FCSA Study, is coordinating the interests of the Colorado Water Entities in storage
space in Chatfield Reservoir and, if storage sp ace is made available, will represent the
Colorado Water Entities’ interests in request ing 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 a nd, but for issues raised by Mt. Carbon
Metropolitan District prior to and at the January 25, 2005 Colorado Water Conservation
Board meeting, reached the consensus recommendation of what they believed was an
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