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• <br />STAT�OF COL4RAD0 - <br />� � Colorado Water Conservation Board <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />721 State Centennial Building �,,�-�� �,,, �� <br />1313 Sherman Street �� � � ��f:� <br />Denver, Celorado 80203 , <br />. y„ <br />. � . <br />\����f <br />� <br />� '': <br />P6one (303) 866-3441 , � I�(���L/� Z��-��- <br />� FAx ��03� a66-aa�a � E M O R N D U M Roy Rom" <br />C'povernor <br />�����-� �� -� < , �%� _ ��t<.� <br />, , L �� �/(�"-� Ja�nes s. I.ocht►eaa <br />Exuudve Director, DNR <br />1' ' �� � Daries C. Lile, P.E. <br />� ' Director. CWCB , <br />O: Colorado Water Conservation Board Members �� <br />�l"�"� <br />FROM: Larry Lang �-�-� <br />�� � � C,C�I::�� ,'�. r Li�cv �w� �, <br />DATE: October 31, 1995 <br />SUBJECT: Agenda Item 18k., November 6-7, 1995, Board Meeting-- <br />The City of Fort ColIins, Floodplain Project <br />Approval of a Construction Fund Loan in amount of $600,000 to construct a <br />Multi-Objective Floodplain Project on Dry Creek in the City of Fort Collins and <br />- --- --- Larimer County, Colorado. <br />BACKGROUND <br />The City of Fort Collins (City) in cooperation with Larimer County (County) has submitted an <br />application for funding to construct a Multi-Objective Floodplain Project known as the "Dry <br />Creek Flood ControI Project". The application is in accordance .with Appendix I of the Water <br />Project Construction Loan Program and the Supplemental Guidelines for Floodplain Project <br />Funding, revised August 1994. The project is located in the northern sector of the City (see <br />attached map). The City is requesting a loan in the amount of $600,000 to assist in the <br />construction of a 2.5 million dollar project. The City will seek other city and county funds to <br />complete the funding package for the project. This project will be a caoperative effort by the <br />City and County. <br />Dry Creek is a left bank tributary of the Cache La Poudre River. Dry Creek flows south through <br />the northeast portion of Fort Collins before it joins the Cache La Poudre river south of the Fort <br />Collins Airpark. The basin has a drainage area of about 65 square miles. In the upper portion <br />of the basin, the stream is steep, narrow, and deeply incised with active headcutting. The lower <br />basin has had extensive commercial and residential development over the past 50 years. <br />Presently, the impact of new development in the lower Dry Creek Basin is already increasing <br />the magnitude and frequency of the storm drainage flows. In the past, much of the excess <br />drainage from farmland was intercepted by irrigation canals and reservoirs. Today, these canals <br />and reservoirs no longer have the capacity to intercept the larger flood flows. The irrigation <br />systems are bypassing these flood flows by the installation of proper conveyance structures in the <br />watercourses and drainageways. <br />