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<br />COLORADO DAM SITE INVENTORY <br /> <br />1.0 Introduction <br /> <br />In 1986, passage of House Bill NO.1 011 added a new subsection (4) (a) to <br />section 37-60-115, Colorado Revised Statutes, relating to water studies conducted <br />by the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB). <br /> <br />The CWCB was directed to compile an inventory of potential dam and <br />reservoir sites within the state of Colorado having a capacity of twenty thousand <br />acre-feet or more, or such other sites that the board deems important. The initial <br />inventory was to be made available to the General Assembly by October 1, 1987, <br />and updated periodically and maintained by the Board thereafter. <br /> <br />The Board was further directed to utilize the inventory to "identify potential <br />dam and reseNoir sites, the development of which may be stopped because of <br />on-going land uses which are encroaching upon needed lands or because of other <br />circumstances." The Board is required to apprise the General Assembly of the dam <br />and reservoir sites so identified in its annual report required by section 37-60-122, <br />eRS. <:> <br /> <br />1.1 Basis of the Inventory <br /> <br />The inventory is based on a review of the state engineer's water rights <br />tabulation and a review of all publicly available published information. Original <br />engineering work or field investigations were not performed by the Board for the <br />inventory. <br /> <br />The CWCB conducted a review of the literature for all published water <br />resource development studies and reports. Over 35 studies were reviewed for <br />information. In addition, several Water Conservancy Districts, Division Engineers, <br />and consulting engineers were contacted for their input. As a result of this effort, <br />over 350 potential dam and reservoir sites with capacities greater than or equal to <br />20,000 acre-feet were identified. <br /> <br />The CWCB also reviewed the State Engineer's Reservoir Water Rights <br />Tabulations. Reservoir sites with conditional decrees equal to or greater than 5,000 <br />acre feet are included in the inventory. <br /> <br />1 <br />