FLOODC00269

• County: Jefferson
• County: Arapahoe
• Title: Chatfield Reallocation Study: Water Supply Partnership Kit
• Date: 12/5/2001
• Prepared For: Jefferson County / Arapahoe County
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

Water Supply Partnership Kit

3) Interim Use of M&I Water Sqpulv DISASTER RELIEF.
Storage for Irril'ation. Section 931 of WRDA '86
provides that for any reservoir project constructed
and operated by the Corps, the ASA(CW) is
authorized to allocate storage which was allocated
in the project for M&I water supply, and which is
not under contraCt, for the interim use for irrigation
purposes. These projects and the amount of
storage available is shown in Table 1. The cost to
you for this storage will be 35 percent of the
construction cost and 100 percent of the operation
and maintenance expense, repair, replacement,
rehabilitation, and reconstruction costs allocated to
the storage space being placed under contract.
Repayment shall be annualized on a 30-year basis
based on the original project construction cost.
The interest rate will he the project rate that was in
effect at the time of initiation of the project (see
Tables 2 and 3). The term of the agreement for
this interim use shall not exceed five (5) years. An
option for incremental five year extensions is
allowed with the basic agreement only if
recalculations for annual operation and
maintenance, replacements, rehabilitation and
reconstruction costs are performed at the end of
each five year increment.

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EMERGENCY WATER SUPPLY

CLEAN DRINKING WATER.

Public Law 84-99, as amended by Section
82 of the Water Resource Development Act of
1974, provides the Corps an opportunity to provide
emergency supplies of clean water to any locality
which the Chief of Engineers frods is confronted
with a source of contaminated water causing or
likely to cause a substantial threat to the public
health and welfare of the inhabitants of the locality.
Cost and repayment shall be as the Chief of
Engineers detennines to be advisable. Work under
this authority requires a request from the governor
of the state where the source of water has becOlEc
contaminated and is normally limited to 30 days.
Loss of water source or supply is not correctable
under this authority.

Public Law 88-99 was further amended by
the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 Appropriations
(Public Law 95-51), to provide the ASA(CW)
authority under certain statutory conditions to
construct wells and to transport water to farmers,
ranchers, and political subdivisions within areas he
determines to be drought distressed. A written
request for assistance may he made by any farmer,
rancher or political subdivision with a distressed
area. Corps assistance will only be considered
when non-Federal sponsors have exhausted
reasonable means for securing necessary water
supplies (within the limits of their financial
resources) including assistance from other Federal
agencies.

RESTRICTIONS.

Evaluation of requests for assistance are to
be tempered by the fact that Corps assistance is
supplemental to state and local efforts. Long term
solutions to water supply problems are the
responsibility of state and local interests. These
authorities are not to be used to provide drought
emergency water assistance in cases where a
livestock owner has other options. Assistance can
be provided to transport water for consumption by
Federally owned equipment with the cost of
transportation to be paid by the Corps. Cost of
storage of the water, however, is a non-Federal
responsibility. Federal assistance can also be
provided to construct wells. The Federal cost,
however, must be repaid.

DROUGHT CONTINGENCY WATER

AUTHORITY.

Section 6 of the 1944 Flood Control Act
(surplus water) provides adequate authority to
l'ennit temporary withdrawal of water from Corps
projects to supplement normal supplies in time of
drought. Should you have such a need, the
preferred approach is for a state or political
subdivision to enter into an agreement with the