LEG00114

• Bill Number: SB97-008
• Year: 1997
• Title: Concerning the Colorado Water Conservation Board Construction Fund and Making Appropriations in Connection Therewith
• Legislation - Doc Type: Construction Fund Bill

Ch. 168

Water and Irrigation

state line. In addition to any previously authorized tasks, the funds are authorized to
be used to perform the following additional tasks:

(a) Groundwater analysis;

(b) Collection offield data; and

(c) Preparation of topographic and aerial mapping for a portion ofthe stream reach
from Rocky Ford to Jolm Martin reservoir.

(2) The amount authorized in this section is in addition to the amount authorized
previously for the Arkansas river channel restoration study. The moneys
appropriated in subsection (I) of this section shall remain available for the designated
purposes until the project is completed.

SECTION 8. Statewide river rehabilitation and floodplain management
needs inventory. The Colorado water conservation board is hereby authorized to
expend up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) from the Colorado water
conservation board construction fund to develop a scope of work and contract for
services to conduct a statewide inventory of river channel rehabilitation and
floodpiain management needs. The findings of the needs assessment will be the basis
for a proposal to determine the economic feasibility of establishing a statewide
floodplain management and river channel rehabilitation program funded separately
from the Colorado water conservation board construction fund. The proposed
program would represent a comprehensive approach and source of funds for local
governments to better manage and address multi-objective river issues including
floodplain management, flood hazard mitigation measures, streambank and channel
erosion, and maintenance of channel conveyance and wildlife habitat areas. The
moneys appropriated pursuant to this section shall remain available for the designated
purposes until the project is completed,

SECTION 9. Chatfield reservoir reallocation study. (I) The Colorado water
conservation board is hereby authorized to expend up to three hundred thousand
dollars ($300,000) from the Colorado water conservation board construction fund to
cooperate with the United States army corps of engineers, the urban drainage and
flood control district, interested local governments, and other water users, in a
reconnaissance study to be conducted in 1997 for the potential reallocation of flood
control storage space to municipal water supply storage in Chatfield reservoir. The
purpose of this reconnaissance study is to analyze existing and alternative operations
of the Chatfield reservoir individually and, to the extent necessary, systematically
with the Cherry Creek and Bear Creek reservoirs, to detennine the advisability of
undertaking a more detailed and more expensive investigation concerning the
feasibility of reallocating storage in the flood control pool of Chatfield reservoir,
either permanently or on a seasonal basis, to the conservation pool for water supply
purposes. The reconnaissance study will estimate potential changes to downstream
flows and to reservoir pool elevations as well as the potential consequences to water
supplies, flood damages, recreation opportunities, water quality, fish and wildlife
habitat, and other resources.

(2) Expenditure of the funds in subsection (I) of this section shall be contingent
upon the board receiving a commitment from the United States army corps of