2005 Water Projects Bill Fact Sheet

• Year: 2005
• Title: The 2005 Water Projects Bill
• CWCB Section: Finance
• Author: CWCB
• Description: Fact and data sheets on the legislation.
• Publications - Doc Type: Fact Sheets

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Water Project Construction Program - Project Data

Applicant: Colorado Water Conservation Board
Project Name: CWCB's Instream Flow and Project Type: Engineering Support
Natural Lake Level Program as needed Services
engineering support services
County: Statewide Drainage Basin: Water Source: N/A
Statewide Drainage Basins
Total Study Cost: $50,000 Funding Sources: CWCB
CWCB Investment: Interest Rate: N/A Term: N/A
$50,000

This project entails the development and implementation of a statewide engineering support
services program to address the consulting engineering needs of the Colorado Water
Conservation Board Instreamflow and Natural Lake Protection Program.

The fund will be used to retain consultants to perform engineering support services for the
protection of the Board's existing instream flow water rights, providing justification for new
appropriations, and providing technical analysis for the transfer of acquired water rights to
instream flow use on an as needed basis.

The CWCB relies upon sound technical investigations to appropriate, acquire, and protect
instream flow water rights throughout the state. Due to an increase in water court activities, the
workload for the CWCB staff responsible for the protection of the CWCB's existing instream
flow water rights continues to grow. This includes efforts need~d to process the acquisition of
senior water rights and to provide technical support and expertise to change the historic uses of
the acquired water to instream flow use. . .

Likewise, engineering support services may be needed to conduct water availability analysis for
streams on which the Board is considering appropriating new instream flow water rights. This
includes determination of the amount of water that is physically available for the Board's
appropriation by analyzing available gage records, analyzing water diversions and call records,
using available stream flow models, and developing stream flow models or utilizing appropriate
standard methods to develop hydrographs to predict the natural (virgin) streamflows for the each
stream under consideration.