BOARD00051

• Board Meeting Date: 1/24/2001
• Description: CF Section - En-bloc Non-Reimbursable Investments Recommendations - Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District - Arkansas Valley Pipeline Feasibility Study
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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STATE OF COLOAADO

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Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: (J031 866.3441
FAX: (J031866-4474
W'Nw,cwcb.state.co.u:i

Bill Owens
Governor

GregE,Walcher
Executive Director

Rod Kuharich
CWeB Director

Dan McAuliffe
Deputy Director

MEMORANDUM

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Colorado Water Conservation Board Members

Bill Green, P.E., Water Supply Planning and Finance Section 13~
Mike Serlet, P.E., Chief, Water Supply Planning and Finance SecJ}f# r

January 16, 2001 fly

FROM:

DATE:

RE: Agenda Item No. 13e, - Water Supply Planning and Finance - En-bloc
Non-reimbursable Investments Recommendations - Southeastern
Colorado Water Conservancy District - Arkansas Valley Pipeline
Feasibility study

Introduction

The water acti vity enterprise of the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
(District) is applying for a grant of $100,000 to pay for 50 Percent of the costs of a
reconnaissance and feasibility study for the Arkansas Valley Pipeline. As originally
configured, the project would consist of over 190 miles of pipeline (main line and spw:s)
and would supply water to municipalities and other water providers in the counties along
the Arkansas River east of Pueblo Reservoir to Lamar. The District will provide
administrative services for the study. The Otero County Water Works Committee, which
is comprised of a large number of public and private entities in the Arkansas Valley, will
manage the study. Please see the attached project summary and letter.

. Backl!round

The Arkansas Valley Pipeline is an authorized feature of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
but the pipeline was never built. About 9,600 acre-feet per year of Project water are
allotted to the pipeline. A study of the feasibility of the pipeline was completed in 1972
during design of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project.

As part of the District's Future Water and Storage Needs Assessment completed in 1998,
a cost update was prepared for the Arkansas Valley Pipeline as it. was generally
configured in the 1972 study, While the cost of conStruction was judged to be beyond the
capabilities of potential participants, interest in the pipeline has continued to be expressed
by Lower Arkansas Basin water supply entities.

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