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~ F s .J ~1 <br />+-r <br /> <br />Project Summary <br />Colorado River Water Conservation District, acting by and through its <br />Colorado River Water Piojects Enterprise <br />Contract C154008 <br />SECTION 1 -CONTRACTOR INFORMATION <br />A. Contractor Name:- Colorado River Water Conservation District, acting by and <br />- - through its Colorado River Water Projects Enterprise <br />Address: 201 Centennial - <br />P.O. Box 1120 <br />Glenwood Springs, Colorado 81602 <br />Contact: Eric Kuhn, General Manager <br />Phone Nur-nber: (970) 945-8522- Fax Number: (970) 945-8799 <br />Section 2 -Project Description <br />County: Moffat and Routt <br />Project Name: Elkhead Reservoir Enlargement Project Type: Dam Enlargement <br />t}rainage Basin: Yampa Water Source: Elkhead Creek <br />7ota1 Project Cost: approximately $19 million .Funding Sources: ~ RECOVERY PROGRAM & <br />- cwcB <br />RECOVERY PROGRAM Funds: Up to $9,159,032. The STATE'S Recovery Program cost share <br />obligation is $8,065,000. Under this contract, the STATE shall pay a portion of its Recovery Program <br />cost share-funds directly to the CONTRACTOR for the construction of this PROJECT. <br />Additional Storage Volume: Approximately 11;750 ac.ft. <br />The Colorado River Water Conservation District -is headquartered in Glenwood -Springs and is <br />-comprised of all or part- of 15- counties -that - are ~ in the Colorado River drainage basin. The River <br />District conserves, -uses, safeguards, and develops water resources of the Colorado River and its <br />- tribu#aries #o which- the State is entitled to under the Colorado River and l,~pper Colorado River Basin <br />Compacts. The River Distric#, acting ~by and through its -Colorado River Water Projects Enterprise <br />and -in conjunction with the -Upper Colorado Recovery Program (UCRtP), intends to enlarge Elkhead <br />Reservoir, by raising the existing dam by approximately 24 feet, for the purposes of supporting the <br />recovery of endangered-frsh species artd to satisfy needs for supplies of municipal, industrial and <br />agricultural water -in -the Yampa -River basin. -The project .will be constructed comrYienang in- early <br />- 2005 -and be completed in early 2007. Dan Birch, -project development manager for the District, has <br />completed the feasibility study using preliminary design information from U.R.S. Corporation of <br />