LEG00080

• Bill Number: SB04-104
• Year: 2004
• Title: Concerning water conservation measures
• Legislation - Doc Type: Other CWCB Related Bills - Killed

Place an appropriate limit on the percentage of turf in new
landscape development; and
Require subsurface irrigation on all new landscaped public
medians less than 4 feet wide.
Requires the Colorado water conservation board and the Colorado
water resources and power development authority to provide financial
assistance to such a water provider only if it submits a water use
efficiency plan that meets water efficiency standards. Prohibits any new
land use regulation or policy that prohibits or limits drought-tolerant
landscapes in water service areas that import water from a different water
division.
Defines relevant terms. Makes a legislative declaration.

1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

2 SECTION 1. Legislativedeclaration. (1) The general assembly

3 hereby finds and declares that:

4 (a) The continuing growth and development and the viability of

5 established economies place increasing demands on Colorado's water

6 resources;

7 (b) Although the "Water Conservation Act of 1991" fostered a

8 state policy of enhancing urban water use efficiency, the act now requires

9 an amendment to meet the heightened need of bringing human water

10 demands into balance with the available water supply.

11 (2) It is therefore the purpose and intent of this act and the policy

12 of this state to require municipal water providers and state and local

13 governments to maximize the efficient use of existing urban water

14 supplies through implementation, at the local level, of greater

15 conservation measures and creative supply-side options.

16 SECTION 2. 37-60-126 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, IS

17 amended to read:

18 37-60-126. Water use efficiency - urban water use efficiency

19 programs - relationship to state assistance for water facilities. (1) As

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