Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District 2000 Annual Report

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Year - 2000 Highlights Water and Storage Needs Assessment Enterprise The year 2000 saw the work of the Water and Storage Needs Assessment Enterprise come to an end, at least the end of the first and second phases of the Water and Storage Needs Assessment Project. In September of 2000 the Storage Study Committee (SSC) of the Enterprise presented its final Preferred Storage Options Plan Report (PSOP) to the Board of Directors of the Enterprise. The Board accepted the Report and its recommendations and asked the SSC to establish an "implementation committee" so that work could begin on making the PSOP a reality. The Implementation Committee began meeting and working on (and negotiating) the many operational details of the PSOP. The Preferred Storage Options Plan, as accepted by the Enterprise Board, included the following elements designed to help provide additional storage for water providers in the Arkansas River basin. Phase I Fry -Ark Project Re- operations- maximize the use of existing Fryingpan- Arkansas Project storage capacity through "re- operations contracts " - provides up to 50,000 acre -feet and meets storage needs through 2010 Phase II Enlargement of Existing Fry -Ark Project Facilities First Stage - Pueblo Reservoir Enlargement - provides up to 75,000 acre -feet and meets storage needs through 2025 - -- must be online by 2013 Second Stage - Turquoise Reservoir Enlargement - provides up to 19,000 acre -feet and meets storage needs through 2040 -must be online by 2025 The PSOP also includes: 1) "Winter Water Spill Credit Program" designed to make up for the impacts each time Winter Water spills from the existing conservation pool; 2) Enterprise Water Management Storage, which will be used to store Winter Water and meet the temporary storage needs of smaller water users within the District and provide space for a water banking program; 3) flow management program below Pueblo Dam; and 4) long -term water quality monitoring program. The purpose of the Water and Storage Needs Assessment Enterprise was to devise a plan of action for the development of additional storage in the Arkansas River basin. With the completion of the PSOP, the work of the Enterprise is complete. At the end of 2000 the Water and Storage Needs Assessment Enterprise was dissolved. The responsibilities for the implementation of the PSOP were shifted to the Water Activity Enterprise beginning January 1, 2001. _P%1;